UK police take down one of world's largest torrent sites for karaoke files

We in Scotland have our own Police,So get your article right.We are not Uk. You must mean England.

Spot on thehan. Scotland & England are seperate

Has the law been changed? It was not illegal to have a link on your website only the file itself.

@thehan
I do agree with your view on UK, We are not really united we even row about football teams in our own countries. However the article dosen't mention Scotland. Dewsbury is in England, unless of course you guys have one as well.
I am English. Not a real Lord of course. I took that avatar after checking that there is no Lord Hook.

THAT'S what you people get from this? LOL, must not be a story worth writing. Or maybe none of us are bitorrent fans.

Reminds me of another story: a friend of mine was in an accident where one of her friends was killed. The story was on a local internet website. The comments, there were four, consisted of an argument over whether a Dodge Caravan was an SUV or minivan!

But no-one has answered my question! How can he get arrested unless we have another Orwellian law?

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But no-one has answered my question! How can he get arrested unless we have another Orwellian law?

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Originally posted by lordhook:

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But no-one has answered my question! How can he get arrested unless we have another Orwellian law?

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Don't believe the government when they say they aren't spying and executing per-emptive thought policing. Most people arrested for doing things on the internet are arrested under the anti terror legislation but 98% end up with being charged with something else or released. You can be arrested on suspicion of your maybe going to commit a crime, welcome to the future

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Come on ladies and stop bitching, its only karaoke, now I can get peace from my overwhelming neighbours and their screeching pop sounding howling kill the cat music.........lol

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... I took that avatar after checking that there is no Lord Hook.

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while, i'm not an expert on English law this does smack of a bought action via ascap/bmi

further it isnt very logical either

as i read it it appears that the problem isn't that they had links but that they didn't have a license to have the links? (from the PIPCU quote in fourth paragraph)

so with this logic, if here in the USA, in the 1930's, a map maker, lets say Rand McNally for example, had decided to make a road map to every Speakeasy in New York then Ness would have raided the publisher for not getting a license to make a map?

instead they should have used the website to identify the law breakers not arrest the reporter

so does anyone know exactly what license the website needed?

and London police took down a lossless music site.....don't they have anything better tp do like maybe go after terrorists?