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Britain tones down draconian anti-filesharing law
UK MINISTERS have backed down a little on the draconian anti-filesharing law that would have effectively handed control of the country over to the music and film industries.
The law would have allowed the Secretary of State to make up any additional laws they liked if they believed that music or film companies' copyright interests were threatened.
Google and Facebook were among firms to complain about the measure, saying it would hamper digital innovation.
Apparently after they realised that this was not going to fly, ministers told the BBC that they would be "refining" the proposals.
Ministers argued that such powers were needed to support copyright laws against future, more technically advanced forms of copyright infringement.
Tory and Lib Dem peers have threatened to vote against the measure when it is considered next in the House of Lords.
The changes being suggested mean existing copyright laws could only be amended by statute if there was a "significant" new threat of infringement and would provide for more parliamentary scrutiny before this happened.
So far the parts of the bill requiring alleged peer-to-peer filesharers to be disconnected from the Internet have not been touched.
However Ministers insist people would only have their Internet connections slowed down or suspended as a last resort. Cases would also have to be considered by a tribunal.
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has accused the government of listening only to the content industries. Instead of focusing on enforcement the government and the content industry should be making it easier to download content legally, it said. µ
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Be aware that the aim of control is to make others so, liberating the control freakism within those who 'fink that they exist to save all through Control. The joke about control/limitation is that it is merely abandonment in the future. Witness what these freaks do with the loot - spend it as if there is no tomorrow - not when you can squeeze more blood from the stones/d, there's always a "tomorrow" to continue with the abandonment. That's why people in "control" are always exposed for their abandonments, exposure being more feaful than their "at all costs".
Why are people so "constructed"? When there is a dichotomy, there is a boundary and this boundary forms the invisible line-of-stability where both opponents tacitly abide by. Boundaries only exist within the realm of Relativity/judgement/comparison. Within Reality, a boundary is the reality/attainment of the reality in consideration. The true aim of all "unders" and "overs" is to remove the dichotomy through attainment of the reality both sides are tusseling for. Consumption, say, is not about over or under but about consumption - for all. When that reality is buried under cruelty/control and sympathy/abandonment, consumption per se will never be attained for all. Similarly, this digital rights monkey nonsense is about instituting and maintaining perpetual income.
Within the non-digital realm, a loaf of bread, once consumed, is gone. Digital allows for easy replication thereby allowing for the promotion of perpetual income but as in all realities, easy come is also easy go in more ways than the obvious one. Easy replication also has another face. Piracy. Piracy is the voice from across the boundary which informs that you cannot have your cake and eat it. "Talent", intellectual input, should only be rewarded through fairness and not through greed. Why? Because greed is also fear at sometime in the future. Without exception. You cannot have greed without fear. That's what the boundary separating the two is informing. Have no greed and you shall have no fear [and vice-versa]. Easy replication is also bounded by the economies of scale regardless of the intellectual junkies and their rationalities about "multi-billon dollar investment" to produce the "intellectual property" sewerage.
Oxygen is free but a day will come when "intellectuals" will bottle and flog it. What does that say? Greed, the sad alterego of the desire for Progression/Evolution and greed will ensure it will come to that point should control reverts back to abandonment. The desire for purity/helical-motion is not the desire to be "better"/circular-motion. The love which expects is not Love. Control is merely a futuristic endeavour and bcause it is bounded to abandonment, its past will arrive one fine day. Why can't the entities in control effect a measure of balance? Because, regardless of their intellect/justifications, their aim is not for balance, it is for "revenue" be that, "The Inland Revenue", "The Abandoned Whores' Just Rewards", "The Control Pimps' Nut Squeezer" or whatever the Zero-Sum Game is up to.
Existence/Progress/Evolution is not about the consequences of the boundary dividing the "under"/screws and its "over"/nuts, life is about attaining boundaries such that there'll will not be the need for any. To complement polarities to effect their neutralisation. The moment one initiates a bias, that person is lost within his past/worship-cum-future/saviourship. When one is lost within the rights-cum-wrongs of Relativity, one has little means for identifying and avoiding motives/the root of problems. Do not participate in digital nonsense but utilise digital benefits. How? Start living and not when one's saviour[-cum-worshipper] says so. Don't pirate nor buy digital nonsense. Believe it, know it, agree with it or not, there are enough analogues to see all through till the end. As for those steeped within their "Digitals", watch as their screws get the better of them and learn - to witness and not to exude one's Fame, Fortune & Immortality. Justice do not exist within Relativity, only within Reality because Reality is Justice per se. The road to Purity requires the living skill of avoidance and not the living-dead's mantra of evasion. One liberates whilst the other addicts.
...that all pirates aren't in prison.
1: gov: We are going to do this horrible thing
2: people: rabble rabble rabble
3: gov: Ok we will just do this slightly less horrible thing
4: People: ok thanks aren't you nice!
Gary who ?
im surprised for 2 reason:
1. they have decided a law is too draconian?! what about the rest of the draconian laws theyve introduced then?
2. do they really think they will gain some measure of popularity from this? they have more than burned ALL their bridges thanks to the many many epic fails from incompetence and ignorance
we need a new political party in the arena because the choices stink
That's a popular tactic used by government to make people accept this kind of laws.
They know people wont like their law in the first place so they announce something even worse so that when they give up on that last version of the law there will be much less resistance against their first version.
Just look at the French that iss exactly what happened to them with Their recent anti filesharing law.
Ohh, the RIAA's/MPAA's lap dog Joey Biden won't be happy with this decision. In the Land of the Free, single moms, adolescents, and senior citizens are sued into financial oblivion for hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for just having a few songs in the "shared" file of their hard drives.
Pretty sad, with all the other environmental calamities and injustices in the world -- for example, China -- that the Obama administration chooses to focus on this particular issue (and at the same time, scold China for restricting the kind of information that can be passed over the Internet).