[SC.LUG] 3 Strike Petition

[Geoff Os]

Hi,
IMHO I agree that people should not be downloading items illegally, but
this proposal does not include the requirement of successful prosecution
only accusation. How can we allow this to happen - what will be the next
accusation not prosecution proposal?

Geoff Os


On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:19:03 +0000, Damian Parker <creativetux at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be quite hard to enforce, you can connect by so many
> methods and ways now, even a pay and go SIM on mobile broadband, not
> even a name and address given in store when you purchase it.  And now
> "3" have a mobile broadband wifi router available.
> 
> And if you are downloading illegally I'm afraid to say you get
> whatever is coming to you especially if your silly enough to do it on
> a traceable means. lol
> 
> 
> 2009/11/25 Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk>:
>> Don’t disconnect us.  These are the words of an online petition against
>> the three strikes laws and extra-judiciary powers for enforcing
>> disconnections.
>>
>> If you think these online petitions are worth the bits (or they do no
>> harm), the please consider signing this one if you haven’t already.
>>
>> Simon Ward
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>> From: Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com>
>> To: Liverpool Linux User Group <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>,
>> chester at mailman.lug.org.uk, NW-hack-space at googlegroups.com, Barry
McManus
>> <barry at samplemagic.com>, hannah Perry <hannah at hannahperry.com>, Andy
>> Webster <andy_web at blueyonder.co.uk>, William Noakes
<wnoakes at yahoo.com>,
>> Alistair Kidd <alistair.kidd at pql.org.uk>, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>,
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Nickson
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james
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>> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:54:19 +0000
>> Subject: [hsNW] 3 Strike Petition
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm sorry to spam you all but this is really important. Some of you
>> probably know about this already, but if not there's now a petition on
>> the Number 10 website against the creation of a 3 strike Internet law
in
>> the UK. This law will allow people to be cut off the Internet and
banned
>> on the accusation of piracy by record companies or other copyright
>> holders. No fair trial, no due course of justice, no innocent until
>> proven guilty, just bye bye Internet because somebody accused you.
That's
>> wrong and we have to stop it. Ok, enough preaching. If you want to sign
>> up here's the address -
>> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus/
>>
>> Send this to anyone you know who hasn't signed yet and may be
>> interested. They have to be a UK citizen or an ex-pat to sign, so keep
>> that in mind when sending out emails. Thanks for your help, together we
>> can beat this thing but it's not going to be easy. So let's kick up one
>> almighty storm!!
>>
>> If you want to read more about the situation and why you should care,
>> have a look here - http://is.gd/52BdD
>>
>> Thanks again I appreciate it, I'll leave you in peace now :)
>>
>> Dan
>>
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