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Universities protest against government wi-fi plans
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| Libraries and universities are protesting
| about plans to make them police users of
| wireless networks.
|
| The government's Digital Economy Bill
| includes plans to make them responsible for
| what is done over free wi-fi.
|
| The plans imply that libraries, universities
| and cafes offering free wireless will be
| responsible if people use it to pirate
| movies and music.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8543142.stm
How do I hate thee, Digital Economy Bill? Let me count the waysâ
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| Last weekâs official advice (Word doc) on
| the bill âwould effectively âoutlaw open Wi-
| Fi for small businessesââ said Lilian
| Edwards, professor of internet law at
| Sheffield University.
|
| âThis is going to be a very unfortunate
| measure for small businesses,
| particularly in a recession, many of
| whom are using open free Wi-Fi very
| effectively as a way to get the punters
| in,â Edwards said.
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http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/03/01/how-do-i-hate-thee-digital-economy-bill-let-me-count-the-ways/
The Death of Open Wifi in the UK
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| This bill simply has "Fail" written all the
| way through it; the only good news is that
| once they realise the implications, the
| entire tourist and hospitality industries
| will be fighting against it...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/death-of-open-wifi-in-uk.html
The Digital Economy Bill's Series of Unfortunate Events ....
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| The Digital Economy Bill is meant to
| position the UK more strongly in the digital
| era. Unfortunately, it might better be
| called the Analogue Economy (Preservation)
| Bill.
|
| As the Open Rights Group have already made
| clear, the Government has admitted that
| cafes, hotels, conference centres, pubs,
| local councils and other open wi-fi
| providers will face disconnection. Of
| course, they can appeal, but the whole
| impetus of the Bill seems to be aimed at
| preventing the UK from taking advantage of
| the digital age.
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http://ntouk.com/?view=plink&id=449
UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public
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| The Digital Economy Bill : what's yours is
| ours
|
| The end game is now in sight. The Digital
| Economy Bill is now expected to become law
| within the next 6 weeks. It introduces
| orphan works usage rights, which - unless
| amended, which HMG says it will not - will
| allow the commercial use of any photograph
| whose author cannot be identified through a
| suitably negligent search. That is
| potentially about 90% of the photos on the
| internet.
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http://copyrightaction.com/forum/uk-gov-nationalises-orphans-and-bans-non-consensual-photography-in-public
Censorship and the DIA filter
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| Officials at DIA have assured me that they
| do not want to extend the filter, even to
| cover the other parts of s3(2), or I would
| not have agreed to be a part of the process
| at all. As the ZDNet article says, they have
| watched the train wreck that is the Great
| Wall of Conroy (my words, not theirs) and
| are determined to not make those sorts of
| errors.
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http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/censorship-and-the-dia-filter/
Spanish Presidency leading Europe towards Digital Inquisition?
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| A disturbing document on Internet policy
| written by the Spanish Presidency of the EU
| Council has been published. While asking
| Member States to detail their guidelines for
| the repression of illegal activities on the
| Internet, the Presidency amalgamates child
| pornography, xenophobic and racist speech
| and copyright infringement.
|
| Elaborating on this unacceptable confusion,
| the document goes as far as saying that "the
| Internet becomes an instrument of social
| regression". Such a ruthless
| instrumentalisation of fear in order to
| impose regressive policies - like the
| filtering of content on the Internet - is
| not tolerable in the European Union.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/spanish-presidency-towards-digital-inquisition
Recent:
Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want To Stamp Out Piracy Chasers
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| Members of the House of Lords recently
| voiced concerns over the UK governmentâs
| Digital Economy Bill, stating that the
| problems facing the entertainment industry
| are largely of their own creation. There
| was also criticism of companies who demand
| cash from file-sharers in the UK, and ideas
| were put forward to end their scheme.
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http://torrentfreak.com/digital-economy-bill-lords-want-to-stamp-out-piracy-chasers-091208/
Amendment Tabled to Delete Clause 17 from the UK Digital Economy Bill
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/12/11/amendment-tabled-to-delete-clause-17-from-the-uk-digital-economy-bill.html
Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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| Five months after it first announced coming
| privacy changes this past summer, Facebook
| is finally rolling out a new set of
| revamped privacy settings for its 350
| million users. The social networking site
| has rightly been criticized for its
| confusing privacy settings, most notably in
| a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy
| Commissioner issued in July and most
| recently by a Norwegian consumer protection
| agency. We're glad to see Facebook is
| attempting to respond to those privacy
| criticisms with these changes, which are
| going live this evening. Unfortunately,
| several of the claimed privacy
| "improvements" have created new and serious
| privacy problems for users of the popular
| social network service.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-changes-good-bad-and-ugly
Threatening Internet freedom in the UK
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| All too often, the public policy world
| focuses on subtle legislative distinctions
| and on regulatory details. But once in a
| while, an issue comes along that strikes
| to the heart of the big principles. Such
| an issue erupted last week in the UK - an
| issue that incorporates two of the most
| important subjects on these pages: privacy
| and innovation.
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http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/threatening-internet-freedom-in-uk.html
Lib Dems to oppose Mandelson copyright powers
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| The Liberal Democrats are to oppose a
| clause in the Digital Economy Bill that
| would let the business secretary amend
| copyright law without parliamentary
| debate.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39927706,00.htm?s_cid=260
Debate on Mandelson's job
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| The Conservatives have accused Business
| Secretary Lord Mandelson of "empire
| building", calling for his department to
| have a cabinet minister in the Commons.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid_8394000/8394205.stm
Pure Mint boss resigns BPI committee over Digital Economy Bill
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| Hall believes the proposed legislation has
| been rushed in a bid to get it through
| parliament before the next General
| Election, that it is in danger of
| disregarding some sacred legal principles
| (regarding process, presumption of
| innocence and burden of proof) and that it
| won't solve the record industry's piracy
| problems anyway.
|
| In his resignation letter to the BPI, Hall
| writes: "I have enjoyed contributing to
| both [the BPI's] Rights [Committee] and
| the [IFPI's] ILC, but increasingly feel
| that my contributions are falling on deaf
| ears as an agenda has already been reached
| that I now consider is unmovable. As you
| know, I do not think the Digital Economy
| Bill is a sensible or well thought out
| piece of legislation. In my view it is
| being rushed through the last months of a
| parliament of an unpopular government and
| it is not legislation that I support".
|
| Referencing clause 17 - the one that gives
| senior ministers the right to change
| copyright laws on whim - he continued: "I
| am particularly surprised that the record
| industry has chosen to endorse s.17 of the
| DEB, which I consider is wholly
| undemocratic and contrary to centuries of
| good practice regarding the forming of our
| copyright legislation. I also believe it
| may set a dangerous precedent going
| forwards (and could come back to haunt the
| industry)".
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http://newsblog.thecmuwebsite.com/post/Pure-Mint-boss-resigns-BPI-committee-over-Digital-Economy-Bill.aspx
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