Boing Boing reports on information it has received from someone very close to the Labour Party on the forthcoming copyright proposal.
“What that means is that an unelected official would have the power to do anythingwithout Parliamentary oversight or debate, provided it was done in the name of protecting copyright.
This is as bad as I’ve ever seen, folks. It’s a declaration of war by the entertainment industry and their captured regulators against the principles of free speech, privacy, freedom of assembly, the presumption of innocence, and competition.
This proposal creates the office of Pirate-Finder General, with unlimited power to appoint militias who are above the law, who can pry into every corner of your life, who can disconnect you from your family, job, education and government, who can fine you or put you in jail.”
Full article over at Boing Boing
Derren, if you are reading this, you could be helpful to @openrightsgroup who are meeting weekly on this matter. This is about more than copyright, it it about the entire future of the internet. Please contact them.
Then we shall boycott the entertainment industry.
Could this be the new War on Drurgs?
dude, you definetly have too many blog entries per day… I can’t even read as fast as you publish them
… well just stopped by and wanted to say I love your stuff, you do a great job… you not looking to be a mentor to teach your knowledge forward do you? or maybe some apprenticeship? I’d love to learn from you….
take care,
sloove
Has this been verified by a source less given over to hyperbole than BoingBoing?
This is only a (what if) scenario. Currently we see things as they are, but (if) this policy is placed….. then the (what if) shoudl be, What can, we do about it!
I have more faith in solution than problem. if we all operated in such a way, much more would be achieved.
Let’s just hope at this stage (and although unresearched) that this probability does not materialize into what (seems) like a possible police state.
You are getting political derren….well done for having the guts.
x love ya!x
It’s so sad to see our elected officials in the pockets of Big Business so blatantly. Next thing you know they’ll be equating file sharing with child pornography to open the wedge a little wider. As with most legal matters there are few absolutes that can never be challenged by circumstance and file sharing is one of these grey areas. How does it square up with putting backups on MobileMe for example, not to mention all the utterly legal and legitimate use of the techniques of course.
So we are back to the Digital Inquisition? And when they raid your house and find that box of cassettes in the loft can they prosecute you for those as well? My head says “no” but I’m a reasonable person, not an entitled record company exec with a hand on the Status Quo (not the group).
What’s the next step? Form a resistance movement? I have no idea
Seig heil.
Was ist de next step? Concentration camps? Summery exection for not carrying an official ID? Spanish Inquisition style torture?
Oh sod this…I’m unelected so I therefore have the right to do what I want. Everyone reading this is subject to an instant £500,000 fine; you should have read this first ‘cos I’ve decided it’s copyright.
I wonder how the human rights activists will feel about this? Or are they abolishing that too?
Bad times
Oh wow, here’s a nice and normal step to be taken upon humanity.. It’s when they try to appoint the same authority in real life issues when people take a real step to revolt. This is ridiculous and needs to be stopped.. We’re just constantly being dumbed down, indoctrinated, stripped of our rights as a HUMAN BEING. They’ll continue to perverse our character to acceptance of their nature – money and power. When do we wake up and play the chess game too? So far we’re nothing more than a bunch of pawns – we have the ability to fight back but we lack the brain power.
For what it’s worth, I’ve set up a petition to legalise filesharing: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/freefilesharing/
>with unlimited power to appoint militias who are above the law
You mean the police?
>who can pry into every corner of your life
You mean the police?
>who can disconnect you from your family, job, education and government
You mean the police?
>who can fine you or put you in jail.
You mean the police? This is as bad as I’ve ever seen, folks.