[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

Avi Greenbury god at lordandmaker.co.uk
Wed Oct 24 16:08:46 UTC 2007


On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:03:14 +0100
Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7059881.stm
> 
> ... but want "service providers to take a more activist role in the
> problem of illegal file-sharing."
> 
> "Where people have registered music as an intellectual property I
> believe we will be able to match data banks of that music to music
> going out and being exchanged on the net," he said.
> 
> (Where to begin when you've got techno-idiots like this proposing
> laws?)
> 
> Rich.

I can't help but think this is a soon-to-be-forgotten statement in response to the OiNK crackdown...


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