hmm checked the techie sites and they give a different angle on this
they say that the Govt doesn’t really want to legilslate but will only do so if the ISPs and music industry fail to reach an agreement between themselves
TBH I don’t give a fuck if either the mainstream movie or pop music industry (at least in its conventional form) is destroyed by downloading, nor do I care how many “stars/celebs” and big companies lose money from it
whatever happens its not going to remove the desire of humans to make music or creative images – if anything it might mean that music and films etc becomes a more underground / local / lower budget type thing and may increase creativity..
I might download the odd MP3 to get hold of more obscure tracks but I can’t even be bothered going to the effort to download most of the movies around nowadays…
there are however a lot of commerical pressures where ISPs would like to (and are) limiting “heavy users”,as especially with a recession coming (limiting investment in infrastructure) they are going to be sharing the same amount of bandwith amongst a large amount of people..
