Kicked off the Internet?

[rattlsnak]

http://www.switched.com/2008/07/20/airports-may-scan-for-illegal-downloads-on-mobile-devices/?icid=100214839x1206312134x1200314256

[Danny_Ocean]

So, the lines aren't long enough? All the terrorists have been captured? Now they'll be booting-up laptops and scanning the drives? Fine. I'll encrypt all my music files in a protected folder. They can search all they want. What are they going to do, waterboard me for the password? Absurd.

[kstar]

This is profoundly stupid.

[rattlsnak]

And those wacky British....

'It has been reported however, that the European Parliament has suggested kicking offenders off the Internet.
'

[aap1966]

Urban myth, urban myth, urban myth, urban myth...........

A "big story", affecting almost everyone yet only reported by a single outlet.
Confused jurisdictions-G8 decision with E.U. deciding the punishment.
Impossible to implement.
Vague, unenforcable punishments.

I suspect my illegal Johnny Horton downloads are safe for a while yet.

[cstreit]

You've been kicked off the internet, lol....

Ummm... Have we completely dispensed with just-cause, or are we only part-way there?

[svandamme]

lol
they can try, and i'm sure they would get kicked off the net with a DoS attack the very next day

[slodave]

Hackers of the world unite!