Tag: digital economy
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Maigret Jnr – Stand By Me, PRISM & OccupyGezi
Maigret Jnr just sent this through, a great Nick Cave or Big Black Delta dark cover of Stand By Me. Love it, and the message…from OccupyGezi in Turkey to PRISM and the NSA, deep and dark(web) things are going down. I’m not really sure where to start, I’ve talked a lot here about CCTV, Police…
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First SOPA/PIPA – then ACTA. Round 2!
OK fresh from the wins of the Great Internet Blackout, it’s time to remember that ACTA, The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (remember that?) has NOT gone away, it’s coming up for the final vote in the European Union, despite major problems with the lack of transparency, a massive vote against it in 2010, private and public…
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Electioneering…
As you might have read here my letters and campaign (in a small way) against the Digital Economy Act talking to my local MP, Glenda Jackson (Lab). She sadly went ahead and voted for the Digital Economy aAct and is in a marginal of Hampstead & Kilburn (474 votes people – head and head with…
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This blog and these mashups would be illegal in the Digital Economy Bill…
Great video – and as it says, many of the mashups played on Radio Clash or ones you download from here and elsewhere, non-‘podsafe’ podcasts you enjoy could and probably will be classed as illegal downloads – putting your connection at risk if the Digital Economy Bill is passed – doesn’t matter how transformative, how…
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Sir Bonarar – 3 Strikes and you’re out! Howzat! Good show!
Bonzer work from those awfully nice chaps (and ladies) at Open Rights Group. What ho! I could write novels about the whole 3 strikes farrago and Mandy’s Pirate Finder General nonsense…I’m not ignoring it, in fact I got a letter from Stephen Timms in response to the letter I wrote to Glenda. It was a…
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Dear Glenda – the response
Followers of my Twitter and Livejournal will know I wrote to Glenda Jackson, my MP about the stupid ‘3 strikes’ rule that EU (not just UK apparently) are trying to pass with the Digital Economy bill, where if you’re caught 3 times filesharing they can cut off your internet. Thinking ‘I don’t fileshare’ or ‘I…