[email protected] > Unfortunately this is one of those wonderful US govt initiatives that > will affect people in many countries. On the flip side, there's very > little those of us in said other countries can do about it.
Some are hoping to use the new e-petitions mechanism to get the UK parliament to debate and ideally condemn the US proposals. I doubt it will work, but it's something we can do. I'll post it to my website and probably the co-op's homepage once I know where it is. More to the point, the corrosive lobbyist grapevine (see http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/192 ) means other governments will doubtless bring forward similar proposals (if they haven't already), so make sure that you are in touch with your local campaigns. In Europe, EDRI.org is a good starting point. Also, look at any business or professional groups that you or your organisation support and check whether they are involved and on what side. Sometimes these bad laws will purport to be about copyright infringement (I live on the coast so I will not call it piracy), counterfeiting or pornography, but those are secondary issues used as trojan horses: these laws are primarily giving control of public internet access to certain corporations that the public would choose to avoid in an open market (see Phorm for the public avoiding someone). Anyway, I'm happy it's a protest not a blackout. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
