On Friday 19 Mar 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
> 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.
Exactly
> 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.
I agree. I have no sympathy with people who rip off copyrighted content
illegally (and lets not call them file-sharers; I share files, but they are
not illegally shared). A law is definitely needed to deal with people who do
this, but not this law. This law is unjust. It will lead to so many
miscarriages of justice that it will fall into disrepute and most people will
then simply ignore it. When the people have no respect for a law, then they
see nothing wrong with breaking it.
What is more, this law is only being framed because of pressure from big
content. If the big-content owners could recognise that their business model
is out-dated, out-moded and failing, then they could come up with an
alternative that leveraged the power of the Internet instead of fighting
against it. Lets not forget, as reported on Panorama last Monday, people who
download illegally actually buy more legal music than those who don't (nearly
twice as much).
Apart from that, big-content will never beat the techies who always work round
every restriction placed on content copying.
> 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.
I didn't know that. Get writing you lazy slobs! :-)
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