This may be an unwelcome comment, but TheRegister.co.uk, specifically Andrew "No Reader Comments Here" Orlowski, apparently thinks that the committee doesn't see any human rights problems in the legislation. Which should MAYBE make some of us worry.

I mean, suppose you criticise the government. Or McDonalds. Or, of course, Microsoft. And then you get thrown off the internet on a trumped-up multiple copyright charge. What's that about?

I think both Microsoft .NET AND Microsoft SQL Server say: as a condition of using the product, you undertake to publish benchmarks only when Microsoft agrees to you doing so, essentially.

I noticed this while installing a long series of Microsoft .NET update versions and patches, some of them correcting the damage done by previous patches, and seeing the licence over and over again. So I hope you don't think that the word "long" represents some kind of a benchmark.

The clause that permits the Government to amend the copyright law without Parliamentary scrutiny must and should be amended to ensure that no such thing happens.
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well of course it breaches human rights - peter mandelson invented it.

doesnt that say enough?