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Digital Britain: Lord Carter vows to force ISPs to crack down on web piracy
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| The communications minister, Lord Carter, has pledged to deliver broadband to
| every home in the UK by 2012 and intends to introduce legislation to force
| internet service providers to crack down on web piracy.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/29/digital-britain-lord-carter-broadband
Recent:
UK Citizens Worked Up About Broad And Vague Obscenity Law
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| I have to admit that I've never quite understood the point of any sort of
| obscenity laws. Perhaps it's just my inner-libertarian, but why should the
| government be outlawing what people look at -- especially when it comes to
| such a subjective standard as "obscenity." Over in the UK, many people are up
| in arms over a new pornography law that is so broad and so vague that it
| could outlaw certain Batman comics, among other things.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090129/0308123565.shtml
Defining the Limits of Digital Britain
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| Most importantly, beyond vague talk of “changing the rules” it says little
| about redefining *precisely* what people should be allowed to do with that
| stuff freely – for example, by setting down in law new fair uses such as
| being able to take back-up copies of any digital content, use in quotations,
| parody etc.
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| At the moment, most people ignore the letter of the law, because the law is
| totally outdated, and the law generally turns a blind eye to them doing it,
| because it would be hard to arrest most of the country's youth, but that's
| hardly a solution in the long term.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1811&blogid=14&pn=2
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