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U2 frontman bitchslapped – The Register

January 5th, 2010

TalkTalk has branded U2 windbag Bono’s intervention in the debate over illegal filesharing “outrageous”, after he said efforts to block child pornography showed ISPs should be doing more to protect intellectual property, writes Chris Williams in the Register. You can read Williams’ full analysis on the Register.
Meanwhile, our blog post earlier has been reported on pcadvisor.co.uk, [...]

“UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime” – The Register

November 11th, 2009

Siôn Simon says “People who have done nothing wrong should not be in any danger of having their internet interfered with at all”.

Forthcoming laws to reduce the level of peer-to-peer copyright infringement with threats of disconnection will affect “hardly anybody, other than the most serious and egregious recidivistic offenders”, according to culture minister Sion Simon.
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