It will now cost you £20...

[Technical Ben]

... to defend your self if wrongly accused of downloading an mp3 or movie.

http://torrentfreak.com/new-details-of-uk-piracy-monitoring-plan-made-public-120626/

(Unless I've read that wrong.) 

What is to stop the crooks Copyright holders from just mailing out false claims? They'll make their money back on it easy with "Reduction, only £10 to clear your name!" ACS style letter.

PS. Dave Gorman (comedian) is a good example of someone getting false accusations (through poorly made automated systems) of copyright infringement and his web pages taken down. So it's rather annoying they want to do this more. :/

[Simon]

It'll probably change again before anything comes anywhere near being enforceable.

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Additional comments:

1. £20 is expensive not every is a millionaire with the money to appeal 100s-1000s of copyright notifications from different individuals either genuine or fraudulent

2. what will users use instead of ubuntu linux or other opensource software since copyright owners can just say users were pirating there stuff and there isp logs will show a large amount of downloading/uploading + there ip address and time online so obviously they must of been pirating and its not like they can prove otherwise

3. i believe that users using the internet are infringing my copyright since i own the internet i think ill send i copyright notification to every uk user that uses wiki without logging in irc or bittorrent and they will have to each pay £20 per appeal since isp won't check to see if its a bullshit claim

4. what about wireless users you have bt openwifi or routers that automatically have wireless enabled that you can connect to without a password or even wpa2 protected wireless that i can just launch a dictionary attack against shouldn't take too long to crack since most users use insecure and easy to remember passwords or they will forget and loss wireless

5. thisis will totally benefit fraudsters especially were someone has already received 2 notifications already give me money or you get a third notification should be a very profitable scam

6. this makes botnets even more appealing as there cheaper than vpn's and you can set them up yourself and leave the victim to deal with appeal costs XD

7. maybe the uk government or the eu as a hole should do something more useful like making laws that ban drm so there is competition as there currency isn't and you have to use us based companies for video's and games i use gamersgate (sweden) but i still have to use steam (us) even though i don't which undercuts everyone since it basically controls the gaming industry right now its advertising 75-80% off its ridiculous and the only way to avoid steam is to use torrent sites also with video's in order to buy video's online you have to use apple itunes (us) which not only installs alot of junk on my pc so have to use vmware and i also can't run the video's on MPC-HC or VLC unless i download it from a torrent site free+drm free is way more appealing that overpriced+annoying drm

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