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Re: [News] America-style DMCA in the United Kingdom?

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:54 : \____
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:17 : \____
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 12:11 : \____
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 09:17 : \____
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Darth Chaos <darthchaosofrspw@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>>> [H]omer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> CD copying OK, DRM circumvention not OK
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> No coincidence that this announcement comes at exactly the same time
>>>>>>>>>> as the "anti-hacking tools" proposal. Clue: they're both part of the
>>>>>>>>>> same agenda. How long before the misconception that "supplying a PC
>>>>>>>>>> without Windows is illegal" becomes fact?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Add MSLabour to the list, under MSBBC.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> IIRC, wasn't there talk about the BBC considering re-vamping the BBC
>>>>>>>>> TV licence fee (which is required only if you receive TV signals) into
>>>>>>>>> a BBC PC licence fee (which would require payment of the fee for mere
>>>>>>>>> ownership of a computer)?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> That was some time ago, although I don't know what happened to it.  As
>>>>>>>> the BBC's licence-fees are now mainly being used to line the pockets of
>>>>>>>> Siemens, Microsoft and others, it's really time to abandon the whole
>>>>>>>> thing.  I'd like to see just how much licence-fee cash becomes profit
>>>>>>>> for commercial entities.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> In the meantime, DRM circumvention "not okay" is utterly unpolicable,
>>>>>>>> and about as sensible as an ID card.  Obviously, the government is
>>>>>>>> being massaged (again) by foreign commercial interests, as those of the
>>>>>>>> people are clearly not important to this labour government.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I wonder how many expensive dinners were involved in getting this
>>>>>>>> abysmal proposal to this stage?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> More importantly, when or where is the next Bilderberg gathering? This
>>>>>>> is a disgusting state of affair that shows you just why you cannot
>>>>>>> separate technology from politics.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Having had a quick peek at http://www.bilderberg.org/, my first reaction
>>>>>> was that it seemed a little over the top, but as you start to pick
>>>>>> through, the site does appear to consist of evidence rather than theory,
>>>>>> and where there is theory, it's backed by evidence.  It's also hardly
>>>>>> surprising that the site has been pulled so many times, I can see a lot
>>>>>> of influential people being very embarassed by it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Local council corruption is the stuff of legend, of course.  I suspect
>>>>>> if we started to sort that out, there wouldn't be a town our county
>>>>>> councillor with a seat remaining.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Have you seen the information and video in my personal blog (some of it is
>>>>> still in page 1)? I've been finding links to Microsoft and the 'Gateses'.
>>>>> Bill's wife attends these events, apparently.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> No, but I'll take a look.  Very interesting!
>>> 
>>> Maybe she meets Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the hallway and exchanges
>>> some piece of advice. Who knows? They are all regulars. Blair has been there
>>> since /before/ he was PM.
>>> 
>>> Published days ago:
>>> 
>>> Melinda Gates goes public
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| .,.With George H.W. Bush at a benefit
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
> http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
>>> 
>>> What did George's son say about Microsoft? "Let them innovate" or something
>>> along those lines? What is it with oversight ending and being called
>>> a "success"? Antitrust action over when Microsoft rapes ISO and bribes
>>> people in Nigeria to eliminate competition? Yeah, we really ought to buy
>>> that sort of New World 'Justice'...
>>> 
>> 
>> It's interesting how "extreme corruption" seems to have fully replaced
>> "extreme capitalism".
> 
> Yes, and there's an army out there trying to hide the traces and call everyone
> who talks about Bilderberg a loon, a 'theorist', or whatever.
> 
> US military propaganda team busted
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The activities uncovered by Wikileaks include deleting Guantanamo detainees' 
>| ID numbers from Wikipedia, posting of self-praising comments on news websites 
>| in response to negative articles, promoting pro-Guantanamo stories on the 
>| Internet news focus website Digg, and even altering Wikipedia's entry on 
>| Cuban President Fidel Castro to describe him as "an admitted transexual" 
>|                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| [sic].     
>| 
>| The proof Wikeleaks assembled includes the IP address and whois ownership 
>| record for public.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil, which is Guantanamo's Internet 
>| gateway server, google hits on that IP address, a traceroute through a 
>| satellite downlink, the whois ownership record for that downlink, links to 
>| the defaced Wikipedia entries, links to comments posted at news websites, 
>| records of approximately 140 promotions of news articles at Digg, links and 
>| quotes about three alleged US military propagandists who are stationed at 
>| Guantanamo, and fourteen links to other Wikileaks articles about Guantanamo.       
> `----
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/13/military-propaganda-team-busted
> 

Oh, we know it goes on, just as we know about the Freemasons, local
council corruption, government corruption, business corruption and so
on...

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