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Originally Posted by TheDon
Not at all, the changes proposed are not drastic. They're still working on the principle of rights holders or ISPs being able to identify who is downloading what.
None of the proposed legislation gives any extra investigative measures, so there are no extra powers being suggested for going to 3rd parties to gather records of those who may be or may not be downloading what. It's simply a different way of dealing with those identified that doesn't cost the rights holders anywhere near as much as taking legal action now does.
Now if in the future the government announces that they're going to be mandating any data hosting service to turn over their logs for analysis to identify file sharers then the situation will be vastly different, but as it is the situation will be the same as it's always been, p2p is an easy way to get caught.
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The new CO proposals make no reference to judicial involvement prior to disconnection. If these were not drastic measures then TalkTalk would not be getting into such a
twist over the possibility of them having to hand over user data and disconnect account holders without a court order.