“The government’s proposed ‘Three-Strike’ Copyright Protection Law is ill-conceived, constitutionally outrageous, morally unfair and epically foolish.” – Stephen Fry.
Stephen Fry has agreed to judge a competition to create a protest song, poem or other form of artistic expression against the proposed ‘Three Strikes’ law.
The law is designed to protect the music and film industry against copyright [...]
Everlasting song about freedom written by Ray Davies CBE.
Personal freedom from relationships-all relationships- with a quirky twist. We want to be free if the situation isn’t right.
He wants to be free ONLY if he can’t have her to himself.
FREEDOM SHOULD BE A CHOICE.
NO CHOICE=NAZI GERMANY
An poster depicting three of the evilest lords ever known – Sauron, Vader and Mandelson.
Levels of online music piracy have remained unchanged in spite of the rise of legal digital services and the threat of tougher sanctions against downloaders, a music industry survey has found, reports Tim Bradshaw.
Research by Harris Interactive for the BPI, which represents record labels in the UK, found that 23 per cent of consumers [...]
Off with their ‘eads!
A short poem wot i wrot
Last week, we told you about peer-to-peer and torrent file-sharing sites were being systematically shut down all over China. Not too long before that, we let you know about file-sharing being monitored by a major ISP in the UK.
Now, Israeli ISPs are throttling P2P network access, too, as confirmed in a report just released by [...]
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and eBay express “grave concerns” over the plans to give minister to power to change copyright law.
Leading internet companies including Google have written to business secretary Peter Mandelson urging him to change the new digital economy bill to throw out a controversial clause that could give future ministers sweeping powers to change [...]
TalkTalk believes the Government’s Digital Economy Bill has serious shortcomings in relation to the provisions on illegal file-sharing. It is their view that the Bill would be deeply damaging to the rights of consumers, and could lead to damage to the internet more widely, whilst failing to solve the underlying problem with file-sharing.
TalkTalk’s main concern [...]
