PPUK – Why the Price of Justice is Too High for File-Sharing
Last week, the UK Pirate Party officially became a political party in Britain, this week, they have posted an interesting commentary on the price of justice if every file-sharer in the UK was caught and brought before the courts.
Already, one UK minister said that a so-called “three strikes” law is too draconian back in June, [...]
BPI Exec – Industry Shouldn’t Have Fought Napster
It may have taken 10 years for one executive to come up with this revelation, but the head of the British Phonographic Industry, or BPI, has recently admitted that the industry shouldn’t have fought Napster, but rather, engaged it. Who knows? At this rate, maybe another executive will think that the industry should [...]
UK Copyright Industry Wants to Use Pop-Ups to Stop File-Sharing
Using the strikingly flawed logic that everyone connecting to a file-sharing network is automatically a copyright infringer, the UK copyright industry wants the government to force ISPs to use pop-up windows to inform users that they are accessing a website that presumably has unauthorized content.
One may call it a new weapon against file-sharers who are [...]
British IP Minister Shoots Down Three Strikes Law Proposal
The copyright industry may have a brand new setback if it hopes that the Three Strikes law would take off in Europe. Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy has said that disconnecting internet users for copyright infringement was not “the right road”. Looks like the copyright industry lobbyists forgot someone while lobbying.
A report from [...]
Could the Economic Crises Kill UKs National ID Card Scheme?
British privacy advocates may have found an unlikely ally in the fight against the UKs national ID card system – the economic crises. The National ID card has become a symbol for the encroachment of the database state in the country which could monitor everything in peoples day-to-day lives. Now that the government [...]
Home Office Backs Down from ‘Super Database’ Surveillance, Launches Consultation
Britain’s Home Office has been wanting to take all communications including everything in social networking sites and phone conversations and put all the information into what has been dubbed a “super database” for police access without a warrant. Recently, though, the Home Office has backed off of such a proposal and, instead, wants to [...]
Davenport Lyons Threatens to Sue Wikileaks Over Publication of Extortion Letter
Claims that the extortion letter is protected by copyright and cannot be posted online.
Late last year, Wikileaks obtained a copy of one of the extortion letters sent by the infamous law firm Davenport Lyons. The law firm, at the time, had been sending tens of thousands of these letters which threatened to take the [...]
Exclusive: ZeroPaid Interviews Open Rights Group
Many things have been happening surrounding your rights on the internet and a number of these things are occurring in Britain. We interviewed Open Rights Group to get a better idea of what things have been like and what things might be like in 2009.
It’s been quite a year in 2008 for British citizens. [...]
One of the RIAA’s Law Firms Tries to Scare British P2P Users
There’s some more anti-p2p propaganda starting to circulate as news in Britain, but an investigation into the law firm reveals that there is a connection between the law firm and the RIAA.
It seems to be the latest thing for the Recording Industry Association of America – hire different firms to pretend to be an unbiased [...]
British Top Legal Advisers – Copyright Term Extension is Bad
Many advocates and experts from around the world have had a long and hard fought battle to stop the major copyright industry’s push to extend the term of copyright. It’s very likely to be welcome news in Britain when this kind of opinion comes from “leading European centres for intellectual property research”.
In the last couple [...]
