Doesn't work for me with IE either.

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

In reply to a post by GMAN98:

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

Government 1, Judge 0.

In reply to a post by GMAN98:

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

Did you read the article? From what I understood of it they are merely going to drop the requirement from the DEA because the court case with BT has proven that it does not need legislation. The desire to block is still there but does not need to be enshrined in the DEA because courts are able to do it without that Act.

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From what I understood of it they are merely going to drop the requirement from the DEA because the court case with BT has proven that it does not need legislation.

Well it does at least reduce the possibility of a Government-backed IWF-style content blocking system, potentially operated by OFCOM, which IMO would be a step too far. Each case will need to be individually tested in the courts, with no "short cut" system to blocking websites which are suspected of copyright wrongdoing.

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These stupid fat cat corporations will never stop people from downloading stuff for free on the net and long may it continue. I say, the more these greedy corporate pigs try an cencor the net and shut down torrents, P2P, the more we should download and do what we like.

If someone says you can't do something, then just do the opposite.

Long live P2P, free downloads and use any means to get around blocked websites or security. The internet belong to everyone.

Sod the lot of them and stick two fingers up to the lot of them.

So at what level of profits do you deem any company fair game to be stolen from? What would be the Net Monetary percentage and over how many year/s?

In reply to a post by GMAN98:

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

seems they used the ruling as an excuse to say its not needed. I bet those guys wish they didnt take BT to court now

glad the government seen sense, also they plan to make the laws more leniant and make copying of personal content fully legal.

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In reply to a post by GMAN98:

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

Did you read the article? From what I understood of it they are merely going to drop the requirement from the DEA because the court case with BT has proven that it does not need legislation. The desire to block is still there but does not need to be enshrined in the DEA because courts are able to do it without that Act.

Yeah that's what I'm not sure of now, its open to interpretation really. It states

"Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government."

That could be construed as saying the idea is dumped across the board, I mean the Ofcom report shows that URL blocking isn't effective.

What I'm getting at is... its a shambles if Ofcom are saying to the government that it won't work but then the British law says it has to be blocked regardless.

Certainly muddies the water anyway

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In reply to a post by GMAN98:

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

seems they used the ruling as an excuse to say its not needed. I bet those guys wish they didnt take BT to court now

glad the government seen sense, also they plan to make the laws more leniant and make copying of personal content fully legal.

I think it's a great idea to open up the rights of the individual who has bought a "license" to a particular piece of media (say music) so that he/she may copy that to other media for personal use.
For those who grew up in the vinyl era and who have had large vinyl collections (like myself), purchasing many of the same again on CD format has been expensive and something I've Always Believed the media companies could have been more flexible on.

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In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

In reply to a post by GMAN98:

Government blocks the block?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698

seems they used the ruling as an excuse to say its not needed. I bet those guys wish they didnt take BT to court now

glad the government seen sense, also they plan to make the laws more leniant and make copying of personal content fully legal.

I think it's a great idea to open up the rights of the individual who has bought a "license" to a particular piece of media (say music) so that he/she may copy that to other media for personal use.
For those who grew up in the vinyl era and who have had large vinyl collections (like myself), purchasing many of the same again on CD format has been expensive and something I've Always Believed the media companies could have been more flexible on.

The question is will the media companies honour the change in law and remove copy protection.