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Digital Economy Bill Could Be Pushed Through Before Election
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| The controversial Digital Economy Bill
| could be pushed through parliament as part
| of the "wash up" ahead of the election in
| April, according to industry insiders
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/digital-economy-bill-could-be-pushed-through-before-election-5683
Lib Dems make the Digital Economy Bill even worse
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| The government's Digital Economy Bill has
| just got even worse:
|
| Imagine that, in the Summer of last year,
| you had been following the MP's expenses
| scandal and heard that The Telegraph was
| publishing a rather less redacted version
| that MP's were prepared to give us.
| Interested, you navigated your way to
| www.telegraph.co.uk only to find it was
| not responding. After some searching
| around and asking friends you discover
| that the website has been blocked by most
| major UK ISP's. It seems a junior official
| in Parliament had asked them to block The
| Telegraph for copyright violation.
|
| Just this could happen as a result of
| amendment 120A to the Digital Economy Bill
| that was passed yesterday in the House of
| Lords.
|
| Amendment 120A was proposed by Lord Tim
| Clement-Jones, a Liberal Democrat life
| peer. The amendment could provide a lot of
| lucrative work for intellectual property
| law firms whose clients want to crack down
| on free speech; law firms such as DLA
| Piper, who -- entirely coincidently --
| Lord Clement-Jones works for.
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/6/lib-dems-make-digital-economy-bill-even-worse/
My Lords, you can't please the entertainment industry and sustain privacy
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| Liberal Democrat peers have added an
| amendment to the Digital Economy bill
| which outlaws 'web lockers'. Have they
| never tried to send a large, personal,
| private file?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/04/web-lockers-digital-economy-liberal-democrats-wrong
Thousands Sign Petition Protesting Net Neutrality Loopholes for Copyright Enforcement
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| San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier
| Foundation (EFF) submitted a petition
| signed by more than 7000 people to the
| Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
| today demanding that the agency close a
| loophole for copyright enforcement in its
| proposed regulations for network
| neutrality.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/03/04
So what is a digital agenda?
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| Is Minister Clement is serious about
| modernizing the digital landscape in
| Canada? I donât know. If he is however, he
| needs to look at some of the basics:
|
| 1) Is universal internet access important?
| 2) If universal access is important, how
| do you implement it?
| 3) If universal access is important, how
| do you handle the costs?
| 4) Is our current system delivering the
| level of internet access that we need?
|
| To a certain extent Internet Access is
| equivalent to Road Access in how it
| affects the citizens of Canada.
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/05/so-what-is-a-digital-agenda/
Recent:
DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK
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| "During today's debate in the UK's House
| of Lords on the much-criticized Digital
| Economy Bill, the unpopular Clause 17
| (which would have allowed the government
| to alter copyright law much more easily
| than it currently can) was voted out in
| favor of a DMCA-style take-down system for
| websites and ISPs. The new amendment known
| as 120A sets up a system whereby a
| copyright owner could force an ISP to
| block certain websites who allegedly host
| or link to infringing material or face
| being taken before the High Court and made
| to pay the copyright owner's legal fees.
| This amendment was tabled by the Liberal
| Democrat party, which had so far been seen
| as the defenders of the internet and with
| the Conservative party supporting them.
| The UK's Pirate Party and Open Rights
| Group have both strongly criticized this
| new amendment."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/0323246/DMCA-Amendment-Proposed-For-UK
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