Peter Merchant wrote: > Now, Take the university, with it's 250-300 Wireless access points and > 16,000 students, and tell me that none of them have ever downloaded > anything not legit. And it all comes over JANET (Joint Academic > Network). > > There's a lot of money there for someone if they can figure out who to > sue.
Sadly, it appears that there's a living out there for less scrupulous lawyers even if they /don't/ know who to sue, just who to scare. There's a lot of folk willing to pay to make the spectre of a court case disappear even if there's a good chance they will be proved innocent. A lot of the 'customers' of the law firm in the BBC news item are porn studios - there's people out there who don't want that kind of mud to stick regardless of whether they actually downloaded that sort of material or not. Instead of Lord Mandelson being paid a fortune to try and make bad, outdated law work in favour of his rich sponsors, perhaps we need to start employing forward-looking and tech-savvy law makers to overhaul the system so that everyone is afforded the protection they are entitled to, little folk and big business alike. Sean -- www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
