20090830 Call to Abolish Mandelson-Geffen Anti-Internet Law
From s5h.net
UK "Three Strikes": Please Write to Your MP
Yesterday I wrote a quick analysis of the insane U-turn effected by the UK government over "three strikes and you're out". Below I've posted the corresponding letter that I've sent to my MP on the subject.
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/uk-three-strikes-please-write-to-your.html Fon and Games with "Three Strikes"
Suppose, now, that people use some of those million hotspots to download copyright material: how easy is it going to be (a) establishing exactly who downloaded it and (b) cutting off that person? Gives a new meaning to the term "hotspot"...
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/fon-and-games-with-three-strikes.html Lord Mandelson pays off his £750,000 mortgage within a year
The mystery of how Lord Mandelson managed to afford a £2.4 million town house in Regent's Park took a new twist this week with his claim in a newspaper interview that he did not possess a mortgage on the property.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6011346/Lord-Mandelson-pays-off-his-750000-mortgage-within-a-year.html 38 Degrees backs campaign against ‘Digital Dictator’ Mandelson
Online campaigners 38 Degrees have launched an attack on Mandelson’s plans to give himself the power to order internet cut-offs without trial. Other campaigners from a range of NGOs are getting in touch with us about this: there is a growing sense of outrage among people who know that the internet is the most important political tool we have.
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/08/38-degrees-backs-campaign-against-digital-dictator-mandelson/ Taking something for nothing is wrong . . .
[by] Peter Mandelson
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6814187.ece UK Wants to Zap File-Sharers
It seems the British government is going loony for anti-piracy rhetoric from the likes of U2 and David Geffen.
http://newteevee.com/2009/08/25/uk-wants-to-zap-file-sharers/
Recent
Mandelson goes to war on teenagers downloading their music and movies... just days after dining with anti-piracy billionaire
Lord Mandelson launched a crackdown on internet piracy just days after meeting a leading Hollywood critic of illegal file sharing. The business secretary plans to criminalise the estimated seven million people - one in 12 of the population - who illicitly download music and films over the internet.
“Taking something for nothing is wrong” – No, not expenses, data.
In the meantime I am going to increase my sharing of Linux distros and hope that someone tries to accuse me of sharing files illegally…..lets see how much of my unlimited monthly broadband I can use. Maybe time is up for the proprietary model? Maybe you should now be looking towards FOSS and the GPL? You certainly don’t have to worry about sharing issues then.
