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Digital Economy Act will not be repealed
THE NEW GOVERNMENT'S new secretary for Culture Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt has no plans to axe the Digital Economy Act, regardless of what the coalition parties might have said when they were canvassing for votes.
Every man and his dog's website is reporting a quote on Paidcontent:net, which has Hunt saying, "We're not going to repeal it," in response to questions about the Act, but no one - least of all his PR team - is able to inform us where the statement came from.
We called the DCMS press room and after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing were able to establish that, sadly, the news is correct, the government is sticking with its onerous Act. Indeed, a spokeswoman told us, "The quote does stand, the government has no intention of repealling the Digital Economy Act." We apologise if any kittens died while you read that.
In the run up to the election both parties, including the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, said that they felt the Act had been rushed through, and needed more consideration. This has apparently been forgotten in a blaze of bunting and celebration about the new exciting government.
How soon they forget too, a report on the Telegraph just last week said that a statement issued at the Liberal Democrats' special conference earlier this month had asked delegates to, "take all possible steps to ensure the repeal of those sections of the Digital Economy Act 2010 which are inconsistent with policy motion 'Freedom, creativity and the Internet'." We assume that when they said 'all', they actually meant 'no'.
To be fair to Hunt, even if he is not being strictly fair with Internet users, he did vote in favour of the Act in the first place. Which, when you think about it, means that he is likely to support any suggestions that have been thought up by parties outside of government.
On that subject, here is one from us. Resign. µ
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Assuming this isn't Parliament making a pig's breakfast they will later sort out to look good, what will happen is as follows: the bill will be fully implimented but before this the Pirates will have turned to IP masking (which can make it look like you're downloading from next door's) and hacking next door's connection (which IS downloading from next door's), which will lead to a public outcry from all the innocent, law-abiding people who got fined for downloading music and games they have never even heard of. In order to save face, the government ultimately repeals the acts and is forced to issue a public apology.
The Government will repeal the law eventually, what remains to be seen is how big a lawsuit they face when they do.
And to spice things up a bit, a quick, short list of websites that might fall under 'copyright infringement':
wikipedia.org
youtube.com
fanfiction.net
deviantart.com
and, of course, the vast majority of the Wikia sites. You know, the ones where you type in, say, battletech wikia in google and get to the comprehensive website. And now I think of it, search engines too, probably 'for directing people to sights that possess material that breaks copyright'
So, yeah, this is gonna be harmful to a lot of people, but I don't think the pirates are gonna notice this much. They have made an absolute mockery of DRM, and they shall make an absolute mockery of this law. And one real clever pirate will, at some point, get one of the industrie's own fined, and then we'll see how hypocritical the industries are. DRM is a losing battle. This bill is probably gonna go like the Titanic
This is a revenue raising exercise for sure. I am thoroughly and utterly disappointed at the Lib Dems, have withdrawn my monthly donations, and will never vote for them again (especially after they announced they're not even going to try and keep Gary McKinnon from being extradited). I should have listened to my friend who said that the Lib Dems will promise anything to get into power.
The is what the DEA will do: it will give rights holders the power to legally demand money from households (not infringers - not the difference). It will make parents responsible for the actions of their children. It will siphon billions of pounds each year out of the UK and into the US (ever seen what the "most downloaded" films and music are on torrent sites - they're American!). Honest hard working families will be hit hardest - those with teenage kids who have been brought up in a world where file-sharing is "the norm". Wifi hotspots will become a thing of the past, and music sales will not increase (who has spare cash to buy music at UK prices?).
Eventually there will be public outrage when enough innocent parents are on the receiving end of: "Your connection was used to pirate our song, pay us £1,000 or we'll take you to court and you'll have to pay a lot more". Someone will challenge a ruling in the EU Courts, and this will set a precedent.
In the meantime, those with business acumen will set up heeeeee-uge VPN farms in countries that spit in the face of such laws and trade agreements (like ACTA - the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). There will also be a new era of systems used to share files (whatever they may be) using mobile phone handsets that sport the new Bluetooth 3 hardware.
Nick Clegg and his "Power Revolution" is nothing but hot air.
now you can neither dance nor download. I guess the music really did die.
This is an act anyways, A little thing about the difference of LAW and LEGAL, COMMON LAW, as in LAW OF THE LAND, which we all have to obide to is pretty much set in stone. It's a little more complexbut it basicallymeans don't cause harm or lossto anyone intentionally. LEGAL on the other hand is a very different storey. When the country went bankrupt last time the national insurance was createdas the country was handed to THE PEOPLE, and the NI was for when a person needed help when they got into trouble. A safty net so to speak. It is not used for this purpose today and the goverment, that you elect decides where that goes. ANyways, The legal system was put into place as when a country goes into bankrupcy, until out of debt you cannot make any new laws. The problem they have is that if you do not agree or understand the LEGAL system, it does not and cannot apply. They need your signiture for one. Its alot like taking a loan from the bank, if you dont agree, You dont get. It works both ways! Acts and statutes are all part of the legal system. Drugs act, legal system, Tax & Road tax? Legal system. Getting the picture?
This is why, as some of you may unfortunatly know , the police are very quick to stand over you and make sure you understand and sign that statement. Without your signiture and confirmation they have no power.
An affidavit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit) is a sworn statement of fact. If you get into any legal issues with a fully signed affidavit, you will see how the otherside cower's as it should state that your a natural being and live in soverignty/by common law and disasosiate yourself from the legal constraints
Simple. Beatthem at there own game, At leastwhile you can, 1984 isnt to far away and people dont even relise. Still, least we know what katie price is upto these days.....
Does not matter because it's politics as usual , tell you what you want to hear to get elected and do the opposite or ignore you once elected to office ......the worse part is ...YOU STILL KEEP VOTING !!!
So how are you going to change this ? YOUR NOT !
but it will have to be heavily modified.
Anyway, seen his Twitter account? Very telling.
more evidence that the 3 main political parties are actually just 1 uber-party.
Rarely fails these days. I may be sounding like a broken record, if you kids knew what that phrase meant, but you really have to consciously *notice* each and every lie, else get used to it, and that's worse.
Well since people are so concerned about the act, and they have a way to calm concerned people, they'll soon announce that instead of repealing that act instead they'll double the amount of CCTV cameras, that way everybody is happy and can be unconcerned, and they can stop worrying about escaping form the internet-crime jails too, since they'll be spotted anyway.
P.S. I hear on a german site they now want EU-wide censorship on the internet, scum isn't done frothing its acid mixture.