Hunt: Online file-sharing is a 'direct assault on freedoms'
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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[The search for a right policy goes on; clearly ISPs are going to be the
online policemen. The Open Rights Group may have weakened its position
with the idea private groups have no duties to uphold the law.]
* Hunt: Online file-sharing is a 'direct assault on freedoms'
'It's privatisation of justice' howls Killock
http://go.reg.cx/news/1QP7
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/search_companies_and_isps_may_be_asked_by_gov_to_tackle_copyright_infringement/
'...He called online file-sharing "theft" that was "a direct assault on
the freedoms and rights of creators of content to be rewarded fairly"....'
'..."Jeremy Hunt is pushing new knee-jerk measures to pressurise private
bodies into making decisions about who is breaking the law. That amounts
to privatisation of justice, which is very dangerous," Jim Killock,
executive director of the Open Rights Group said....'
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