I have to disagree. The internet has never been nor ever will be a free for all, laws still apply there every bit as much as they do in the real world, it's just the enforcement that's been slow to catch up. On security risks, as a former journo, I'd have expected you to have actually researched that a little before making such strong claims. The role of internet and strong encryption in terror related incidents, with the exception of recruitment, is negligible. Genuinely! You'd think covert encrypted back channels and sopositcated command and control structures were the norm, but it's all done face to face or using SMS (that the government has intercepted for decades). And even if strong crypto was outlawed, what difference would it make? Your average suicide bomber isn't going to have some moral issue at using illegal software. Plus, it's just maths and ciphers have been in use since Ceasars time. You can't outlaw it any more than you can outlaw telling the time. As for journalism, whilst it's decimated your industry, much of that was simply because it was a disruptive technology that the industry was slow to react to. Initially people were wooed by free and fast content, they've now realised that that comes at a price (accuracy) as the rise in 'alternative facts' has shown. It's taken too long, but people have finally woken up to it. So, now we're coming into an era where people don't mind paying for quality journalism and even free sources are finding business models where quality investagetive journalism can thrive. Admittedly, it's not there yet, but it's getting there.

The good news is that whilst the uk now has some of the most draconian inti-privacy snooping and surveillance laws in the world, the internet itself was designed to be resilient and works around problems. Whilst that was true in a technical sense, it's true in practical sense too and both censorship and mass survelience are treated as problems. The government will always be 10 steps behind the technologists in that regard.

Oh and just wait until VPNs are made illegal (and before you say 'never' , remember this is the same government that's trying to ban strong E2E crypto) because it stops the snooping on you ..... no, I mean terrorists .... no child ... hang on, what's the current reason for wanting to ban what is essentially maths?

Same here, vilifying a legitimate and useful tool (though I moved from xbmc to plex before xbmc became Kodi) for the sake of easy reporting is bit torrent / tor / bit coin all over again.

I'm not entirely sure of the legality of receiving a stream myself. I know the Kodi sellers used to tout an EU rule designed to protect journalists from prosecution for viewing something on a website that is publicly accessible. Quite how this works when it's a non-journalist for obvious reasons of infringing copyright, I don't know. I am also aware of the lack of prosecutions for downloading/streaming (rather than broadcasting / selling). However, I can see where this is heading. The government is already expecting ISPs to provide logs of traffic on request. Getting away with it at the moment is trivial, but one day, in the not too distant future, there will be a massive crackdown on people streaming dodgy content because the rights holders have power and influence over the government

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39758489

Yeah, if I turned that off, it wasn't intentional. I just can't work out which of the many options I tweaked that may have caused it

Yep, you can now only edit them for a few minutes after posting (so you have chance to go back and correct mistakes).

I've just hidden a few response to a couple of posts now hidden by the original poster. No problem with any of the replies, they just don't make sense now.

People get upset when we hide content, but I agree this is no place for this discussion and was ruining a thread on a very specific topic, so I've moved the offending posts into their own thread, where people who don't dare who did and didn't protest and why,can easily avoid them. Now, back to the trust please

For me, Brudenell in Leeds (Leeds' best live music venue, it's an old sports / working mans club that's been repurposed as a music venue, without losing the spit and saw dust, pint of mild and a pickled egg, type charm). I believe it's part of a uk tour though

Yeah, Grandmaster Flash continued to have quite a career on his own, where as, SHG / Furious 5 / Melle Mel didn't. So they tour separately I bet you both gigs feel that White Lines is theirs to play though

I absolutely loved Farscape, but it's an acquired taste. It's a bit silly and a bit cheap at times, but very enjoyable if you don't keep trying to compare it to bigger budget things Anyway, what I resurrected this thread for .... Better Call Saul, season 3, seems to be off to a good start! Also, with the upcoming new series and because Sky now have the original series box set available, my wife is watching the original Twin Peaks from the beginning (for the first time ever). This could be problematic, because she's been known to pause Hawaii 5-0 and Bones to ask questions about the plot. I currently anticipate we'll have finished watching it by 2025. I am looking forward to a new series after all this time though.

Is anyone in contact with the folk in Bamber Bridge who used to organise the coffin ceremony? I know the last one wasn't allowed to happen on police grounds (so we organised one from the Fox and Hounds to The Aqueduct) but those were different times, noticeably the protests were at their peak and people's anger was far less controlled. The right place for the ceremony is Brig and I really don't want us to organise it again (though @EwoodDawn and 90% of the work) but I also don't want the tradition to die out. So, in case the worst should happen (and we're going to need a miracle to prevent it) is anyone able to check with the Brig folks if they're looking to bring it back.

I tend to avoid the secondary market sites until I get desperate as it just feeds those who only buy to flip them for a profit. I'v just added Grandmaster Flash to the list of retro-rap gigs I'm doing. .

I lost a good 6 months to Fallout 4. Brilliant game and so so so much content in it.

FF 15 is still unopened from Christmas. I'm hoping the announcement of the spec for Scorpio (it's a beast ) mrn that there is a big price drop on PS4, in time for the remaster of XII and new Kingdom Hearts (both of which I can't wait to play through with my son).

Having now related, I'm looking for a spare for the Stones Roses in Leeds if anyone has one going at near face value. I think the only gig I have booked (other than t'hotpots, who don't count) is some very old school rap at my fave venue in Leeds.

What DJs are really doing

Time to revive this classic thread, with this Bloke photoshops baby into slightly dangerous situations