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Digital Economy Bill – Petiton Harriet

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Currently the Digital economy bill, is still trundling it’s way through parliament without any proper debate or anyone much taking a look at it. On Thursday Harriet Harman will have to explain the Government’s plans for this bill so before then write to her and ask that it be given proper time for a full debate. This in case you’ve forgotten is the bill that will block access to websites and cut off your internet access for alleged copyright infringement whilst at the same time allow anyone to make use of your photographs for anything if they think it’s an … Continue reading →

This is getting silly

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I’ve been meaning to write about the Digital economy bill for a while, but life has been getting in the way and it just keeps getting sillier. Plus of course loads of other people are providing excellent commentary faster than I was getting round to it, but I’ve never let being late to the party stop me before. The things that are wrong with this bill are almost too numerous to mention, it’s obviously written with either no technical understanding at all, or with the deliberate intent to be wide open to abuse. The current government does such things so … Continue reading →