There are also very strict demands on peoples providing copy written content. Rules have loosely been written in to protect sites such as Youtube and Google.
Unfortunatly the whole bill has been poorly put together by politicians with little or no technological experience and the protection for sites such as Youtube are flimsy at best. Please just imagine what Google will have to do if every video posted to Youtube has to be vetted first. The bill tears at the very freedoms that have allowed the internet to prosper like it has. In many places I agree a similar bill is required - however it should be written up and criticised by technically experienced peoples. A technological bill that Google, BT etc. stand against cannot be allowed into UK law. At this stage if 10,000 written requests are put to local politicians then the bill will be required to be run through a more formal analysis that is currently the case. Thats 10,000 people across the whole of the UK. -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
