Comments on: UK Wants to Zap File-Sharers http://gigaom.com/video/uk-wants-to-zap-file-sharers/ Sat, 26 May 2012 10:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SMP http://gigaom.com/video/uk-wants-to-zap-file-sharers/#comment-475397 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:24:38 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=30447#comment-475397 Corruption Alert!

Why should ministers give themselves rather than law enforcement agencies the power to monitor and cut off file downloaders?

Answer: corruption! The ability to earn party and personal contributions from RIAA and MPAA in return for action. If they were to give these powers to the law enforcement agencies, then they would lose the chance to pocket the money themselves.

]]> By: Simon Mackie http://gigaom.com/video/uk-wants-to-zap-file-sharers/#comment-475396 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:21:54 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=30447#comment-475396 I can’t see it happening myself. I think it’s just the government making noises to appease the lobbyists (and, in the process, showing that they really don’t get what a “Digital Britain” should be like)

]]> By: UK Minister Wants to Personally Zap File-Sharers http://gigaom.com/video/uk-wants-to-zap-file-sharers/#comment-475395 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:20:00 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=30447#comment-475395 [...] By Liz Gannes | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | 10:19 AM PT | 0 comments It seems the British government is going loony for anti-piracy rhetoric from the likes of U2 and David Geffen. Legislation proposed in the UK today would allow government ministers to cut off Internet access to persistent file-sharers. The bill comes out of one minister’s desire to add some “beef,” as he put it, to a proposed policy that would only consider slowing down repeat infringers’ access if piracy levels couldn’t be significantly reduced by other means by 2012. Read the full story on NewTeeVee. [...]

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