____/ dapunka on Friday 29 June 2007 13:13 : \____
> On 26 Jun, 11:18, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> EC threat to BBC over downloads
>
> <snipped for brevity>
>
> If you're a UK citizen, you can sign an e-petition against the Beeb's
> DRM download debacle at
> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/
All the petitions I've signed for Number 10 have been ignored, even when
thousands of people were involved. The government is moved by the money and
many signatures will only lead to some polite and short formal reply. It's a
waste of time.
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
Coming from Larry Lessig, this is nothing to sneeze at.
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