Am I bovvered? - Do I look bovvered?

[monty]

Basically I feel the same as Bobsbeer, It won't affect me personally. How many thousand deaths a year it will cause in the UK is hard to calculate but mine won't be one of them. I guess almost any vaper will be able to use Google to find devices. The hardest hit - the potential fatal victims of the TPD - are those who would have quit. Another five years with only sensible regulation and most smokers might have quit.

[Bobsbeer]

Dec 23, 2015 18:06:12 GMT nanotm said:

Bobsbeer

which is all good and well until you read part one section 3 b

(3) For the purposes of this Part, a service provider is established in a particular EEA state, if the service provider— (b) is a national of an EEA state,

which doesn't sound so bad until you re read part 1 and notice this

“any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”; “recipient” means a person who (whether for professional purposes or otherwise) uses an information society service, in particular for seeking information or making it accessible

so you making a post after the 20th may 2016 recommending or providing information on any forum anywhere in the world is in fact a criminal offence if it can be accessed by anyone who resides within any part of the EEA.

you don't need to have been paying for the service for it to be a commercial one, if it can be proven that other companies do charge to provide the service to other people, you don't need to be making any money from the dispensing of advice or recommendation because someone will be, in fact its a criminal offence to give the advice in the first place.

please continue to post after this draconian "you will live how I tell you" law gets implemented under the guise of "its not as bad as we could have made it" tripe, the only way it could of been worse would of been to outright ban the products, they didn't do that because the people with the money want to strangle this market opportunity as well as the other parts of it they already strangle.

I will be buying in quantities of the items I expect to become non existent in the future including spares for my tanks and nic base to mix with my baking supplies, more than half of what we use on a day ot day basis will become scarce to impossible to source once the various legislations kick in around the world, so unless someone starts up a factory making the tanks here in the UK were not going to be able to find them at affordable prices for much longer.

Sorry you have lost me completely on this one.  To me it doesn't read that way at all, and without taking sentences out of context I fail to see how you make the connection.  What you are quoting is defining what an information service is.  I agree the forum would be considered an information service.  And yes the recipient would be you or I wherever we were.  However for what you or I write to be illegal or contrary to the regulations it would need to be paid for or at the very least a commercial communication, which it clearly wouldn't be.  But as I didn't write the regulations I guess we are all entitled to read them any which way we want.  I'm sure more learned people will comment as we go forwards, so I wouldn't get too worried about it.  As I see it.  We either will be able to post or we won't, but I don't think it will be the latter.