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[News] [SOT] More Incompetence at Home Office

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] More Incompetence at Home Office
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:04:36 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Home Office CD in auction laptop

,----[ Quote ]
| Mr Bevan put the disk into the drive to check it and found it was encrypted.
| 
| "It also said, 'If found please return'. I thought, 'That's a funny thing to 
| have on there,' but there you go."  
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7269965.stm

Also:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/LawyerISP/

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| "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force internet service 
| providers to act as legal representatives for the RIAA and be treated like a 
| common courier."  
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Related:

Whitehall gives ISPs piracy deadline

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| The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be 
| hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps 
| to curb illegal downloads of music and films.  
| 
| Britain would be one of the first countries in the world to impose such 
| sanctions. Service providers say what the government wants them to do would 
| be like asking the Royal Mail to monitor the contents of every envelope 
| posted.   
| 
| Andy Burnham, culture secretary, told the Financial Times on Thursday that 
| the deadline was a “clear signal” of the government’s determination to tackle 
| rampant piracy, which the music and film industries blame for the slump in CD 
| and DVD sales.   
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26765228-e0c0-11dc-b0d7-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1


War on music piracy

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| Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the Government was aware of the 
| views put by the music industry for a code of conduct for ISPs to address  
| file-sharing by subscribers. 
| 
| "We will also examine any UK legislation on this issue [including any 
| three-strikes policy] with particular interest," he said. 
| 
| Music Industry Piracy Investigations general manager Sabiene Heindl said her 
| organisation had been lobbying for the policy for 12 months. 
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/02/16/1202760662778.html


ISPs demand record biz pays up if cut-off P2P users sue

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| ISPs are calling on the record industry to put its money where its mouth is 
| on illegal file-sharing, by underwriting the cost of lawsuits brought by 
| people who are wrongly accused of downloading or uploading music.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| It's the latest public detail from long-running private negotiations that 
| have hit mainstream media headlines today. The lobbying campaign to have 
|                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| government force ISPs to disconnect persistent illegal file-sharers scored a 
| victory with a leak to The Times. The draft government document says: "We 
| will move to legislate to require internet service providers to take action 
| on illegal file-sharing."     
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/12/anti_filesharing_paper_leak/


Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban'

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| The Internet Service Providers Association said data protection laws would 
| prevent providers from looking at the content of information sent over their 
| networks.  
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7240234.stm


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8


Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years

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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
|
| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800 


RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates

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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of 
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding 
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"  
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Is Sarko Uxorious?

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| What this neglects to take into account is the fact that falling into the 
| public domain is a gain for the public - and hence the actual moment when it 
| becomes part of the "national pop heritage" - and that the gain vastly 
| outweighs any minimal effect it has on ageing rockers' royalties. 
| Unfortunately, with this action, as with others (including the "three strikes 
| and you're out" approach to fighting filesharing), Sarkozy shows himself to 
| be an old man - however young his new wife may be.      
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-sarko-uxorious.html


MEPs debate tightening up lobbying rules

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| MEPs on Thursday launched the thorny debate on tightening rules covering the 
| thousands of EU lobbyists in Brussels, with an initial discussion showing 
| deputies in favour of defining the term "lobbyist" as broadly as possible but 
| shying away from the 600-page rulebook that defines and confines lobbyists in 
| the US.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| For his part, Mr Stubb says he is not out to demonise lobbyists, whose 
| activities have come to light recently during the ferocious lobbying on 
| legislation that took place during the development of the chemicals, services 
| and software patent laws.   
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http://euobserver.com/9/25526


,----[ Quote ]
| "A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level."
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http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/

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