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Lib Dems to change their amendment to the digital economy bill
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| The Liberal Democrats are preparing to
| change their controversial amendment to the
| digital economy bill, which has its third
| and final reading in the House of Lords on
| Monday.
|
| The change would give sites blocked under
| the bill the power to challenge it in the
| courts, and to demand legal costs and
| damages from any copyright owner that
| caused it to be wrongly blocked through
| court procedings.
|
| But the Open Rights Group, which campaigns
| on digital rights and freedoms, said that
| the amendment would not solve deeper
| problems with the bill â which may be
| rushed into law with barely any debate in
| the Commons â and called for it to be
| abandoned.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/15/lib-dems-amend-digital-economy-bill
Wanted: a Groundswell of Massive Opposition
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| Last week I wrote about the great news on
| the ACTA front, but sadly that's just one
| battle we need to win. Another is against
| the insanely retrogressive Digital Economy
| Bill â an ironic name if ever there were
| one, given that it seeks to impose the old
| rules of the *analogue* economy on the
| digital world. As such, it is likely to
| have a huge negative impact on companies
| using the Internet (that is, anyone in
| business not still using the abacus.)
|
| [...]
|
| That handily maps out is how we can stop
| the Bill: by creating that âgroundswell of
| massive oppositionâ. What I think we need
| to do is to make it clear to our MPs is how
| the music recording industry just expects
| them to roll over and accept the Bill as
| is, rather than to carry out their
| parliamentary duties and to examine it and
| amend where appropriate. We need to get
| across the fact that this Bill is not
| incidental, but will determine the economic
| and social landscape for this country in
| the next few years; as such, it needs to be
| drafted carefully, not thrown together at
| the last minute.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryId=2848&blogId=14
Lords pass controversial internet piracy bill
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| Legislation to tackle internet piracy,
| including bans for illegal file-sharers,
| has been passed by the Lords.
|
| The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to
| be rushed through the Commons before the
| general election.
|
| Peers had earlier rejected a bid by
| ministers to include wide-ranging powers
| over future online piracy law.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8569750.stm
BPI Says That UK Spies Are Against Digital Economy Bill
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| The debate over the Digital Economy Bill in
| the UK (the attempt to ratchet up copyright
| law to repay favors to an entertainment
| industry that is slow to adapt) has taken
| an odd twist. Cory Doctorow over at Boing
| Boing has the details of a leaked memo from
| the BPI (pdf) to a bunch of recording
| industry execs and lobbyists, that details
| the state of the bill and the ongoing
| strategy for getting it approved. There are
| a few items worth noting:
|
| 1. The BPI seems to think that the UK
| intelligence community is now the
| biggest threat to stopping the bill.
| Seriously. Apparently, UK spies are
| afraid that passing this bill will drive
| a very large number of people to switch
| to using encrypted internet tools,
| making it that much more difficult to
| spy on them.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0034508554.shtml
Europe trashes ACTA as Obama praises it
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| Earlier this week, we noted that the major
| parties in the European Parliament had all
| agreed on a resolution trashing the Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and
| the secret process that has been hashing it
| out. That resolution has passed Parliament
| by a huge marginâ633 yes votes, 13 no
| votes, and 16 abstentions.
|
| The Greens/EFA coalition praised the vote.
| Greens MEP Carl Schlyter of Sweden said
| that "ACTA risks becoming known as the
| Absence of Commission Transparency
| Agreement... The EU cannot continue to
| negotiate on ACTA if the people are not
| allowed to take part in the process. It is
| also a totally absurd and unacceptable
| situation if MEPs, behind closed doors,
| have to ask the Commission about the
| content of the agreements we are supposed
| to vote on."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/europe-trashes-acta-as-obama-praises-it.ars
Recent:
Act on ACTA: Write to Your MEPs
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| One knock-on effect of that obsessive
| secrecy is that even ordinary
| parliamentarians are forbidden from seeing
| the drafts, which makes the negotiations not
| only a travesty of democracy, but also a
| more direct slap in the face of those
| politicians. Happily, the latter are
| beginning to wake up to the fact that they
| are being sidelined here, and starting to
| become more forceful in their demands for
| access to ACTA.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2816&blogid=14
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