Re: Consultation into potential legislation aimed at curbing illicit filesharing on the net
MJ Ray <[email protected]>
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Glyn Wintle <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/07/24/government-to-consult-on-legislation-to-curb-illicit-filesharing-as-industry-agrees-voluntary-scheme/ > > The Government has released a consultation into potential > legislation aimed at curbing illicit filesharing on the net. [...] The consultation is at http://www.berr.gov.uk/consultations/page47141.html Closing Date: 30-10-08 The great big elephant in the room, so far as I've seen so far, is how are they going to differentiate "illicit" filesharing from regular filesharing? The bits I've read so far say "identified (by the rights holder)" so I suspect they won't, so good ad-hoc cooperative download tools will also be screwed. It's all couched in the BPI's favourite "consumer" language too. Nasty. I'll respond once I've time to read it all and I'll also ask my telco/ISP to respond against this New Enclosure attempt, but I'd love to read others' thoughts on this. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237