Page 5 of the Interface section of today's London Times says that the UK government is considering a European Community proposal to make the use of web caches unlawful in response to pressure from the music industry (presumably over MPEG 3 piracy). The article is generally scathing of the proposal, but doesn't really explain the benefits of caches well, nor point out that there are already ways for caching to be defeated, and therefore an implied consent (of course our problem tends to be that cacheing is defeated too often resulting in measures to defeat cache defeating!). It doesn't point out that cache software is one of the best places to block pirate sites. The article is possibly on http://www.the-times.co.uk/, but they require demographics before they will let you enter, and their terms and conditions don't permit links to internal pages, so it wasn't worth searching for such an article. -- David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
