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Re: [News] Mandelson and Microsoft Front Group Use Lies to Knock People Off the Web

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____/ Tony(UK) on Wednesday 02 September 2009 14:37 : \____

> On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:19:30 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Peter Mandelson Defends His Sudden Conversion To Kicking People Off The
>> Internet
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>> | You do realize that a UK-based music organization (PRS) recently
>> released a | report noting that the music industry in the UK is actually
>> growing? Right? | These are the sort of facts the Secretary of Business
>> knows, right? And if | the industry is growing, despite complaining
>> about file sharing, isn't it | possible that the real issue is just
>> focusing on business model improvement, | rather than the hand of gov't
>> stepping in and slapping people around? `----
>> 
>> http://techdirt.com/articles/20090831/0134186048.shtml
>> 
> When UK ISPs remove the binary newsgroups that carry warez, MP3s,
> pornography, virus-laden files and the like, THEN I'll listen to this
> rubbish.
> 
> Until this happens, it is just rhetoric, but much is being done in the
> background by the UK Conservative party. Expect changes in what ISPs offer
> their customers.

People will *always* find new protocols (even encrypted) to exchange zeroes and
ones. The worst thing to do is kill the medium.

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