Her Maj Hates Filesharers

No 50p Broadband tax! Yay!
Published 18/11/2009 at 22:22 by Tuffcub
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This is going to be very brief as I’ve just stuck my head in the office on my way home from the PSN Video Launch. Her Maj The Queen opened Parliament today and during her speech she outlined the governments plans to cut off persistent file sharers. Cut off their internet connection that is, not their head – although she is Queen so she could do that.

The very good news is that speech did not include the 50p broadband tax that was slated to arrive early next year. That will be launched later in the year if Labour is still in power (hint: they won’t be). Her Maj has saved us all 50p a month, or six quid a year!  

In other good news, all games aimed at those aged 12 and above will have a compulsory age rating.

Source : HRH Queen Elizabeth II

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  1. I laughed out loud at that :D
    She is the Queen so she could cut off our heads.
    Top stuff.


  2. Love the Source of this story. Had a few sherberts?


  3. Few, it wouldn’t be nice to see the queen cut someones head :P


  4. Nice
    now i can buy a extra 600 1p sweets a Year :D


  5. Well technically she is the source. And I might have had a glass of wine or two. Night!


  6. ‘Her Maj’ made me laugh. Much relief at this, I was struggling to sleep ;)


  7. Good giggles.


  8. “if Labour is still in power (hint: they won’t be)”

    Not so sure. If the British public are stupid enough to vote for Jedward, Gordo may yet win an election.


    • the British public are stupid enough to elect the BNP.

      ’nuff said.


      • The Sun will do another lightbulb front page with browns head in it. It worked last time lol


    • I like to think they’re voting for jedward because they’re smart enough to see Xfactor for the farce that it is..


  9. haha that made me laugh


  10. What would that frowning idiot do with 6 quid a year seriously is there a reason in paying 50p a month????? No!!?


  11. I never do fileshare so I want six quid in my account now.


  12. meh, with spotify who needs to file share? 
    however i do not mind 50p a month for better broadband. – is this to make all off uk 50gb cable right? 


    • No its to make all of the UK 2gig. Yay. Not.


      • No, 2 megabits

        ie. not even fast enough for low quality stream of iPlayer during the evening


  13. lol


  14. It’s about getting the UK up to a passable speed. I used to have a 20MBit line at the old place but the new house (read: last 18 months) has a suffering 512 to 1024kbps connection. Basically, utter cock. So I would be very happy to see the country provide a solid 2Mbit connection across the land. It’ll benefit the country in the long-term. Equally, I would’ve been happy paying it if I was at the old place too. Hope it still goes ahead.


  15. I’d happily pay a bit more each month to my ISP as a tax to get the UK broadband infastructure up to a decent and consistent speed.


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