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UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It 179

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @05:03AM from the this-way-round dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As well as taking an active part in OFCOM's code of obligations in regards to the ill-conceived Digital Economy Act (the UK three-strikes law for filesharers), niche ISP Andrews & Arnold have identified various loopholes in the law, the main one being that a customer can be classified as a communications provider. They have now implemented measures so in your control panel you may register your legal status and be classed as such." Another of the loopholes this inventive ISP sussed out: "Operating more than one retail arm selling to customers and allowing customers to migrate freely with no change to service between those retail arms, thus bypassing copyright notice counting and any blocking orders."

Comment Re:My God (Score 1) 822

by jzaw on Saturday May 20, 2006 @07:32AM (#15371571) Attached to: UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys

> "I don't understand why people seem to think that the rights of terrorist
> suspects should be more important than those of innocent people."

ive got news for Blair and Bush

the rights of torrorits are EXACTLY THE SAME as the rights of innocent peopple

in the civilised communities of the world we call these INALIENABLE HUMAN RIGHTS

something the pair of them especially Bush seem to have forgotten

Zaw

Comment Re:Application maturity (Score 1) 307

by Ashetos on Monday September 29, 2003 @02:54PM (#7087190) Attached to: Adobe Releases Updated Creative Suite

The only victims in the AutoCAD place are the chumps that have to use it. And have to upgrade to overcome the deficiencies of the previous versions.

In my experience AutoCAD is the epidamy of bloat-ware, legacy-bogged, and monopoly-driven software. It is entirely incomplete and quite bug-ridden despite almost 20 years of development. I find myself dreaming of the day when Microsoft gets hungry enough to decide to take that market away from Autodesk.

I can not think of a less-deserving company or product than AutoCAD. Unfortunately, market conditions and the consevative nature of the industries it pretends to serve make it quite a smug and uncontested "killer-app."

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