The Labour government is completely out of touch and up a tree, as this proposal shows quite nicely. They are going to lose, badly, at the next election. Current polls show them slipping slowly into third place.

Politicians have NO knowlegde about the internet. (At leat not the important ones). It is only funny when these politicans ask “What is a browser?” as long as they don’t try to make laws about the internet.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop them. Or changes their “I don’t want to hear what the pro’s have to say!” attitude.

I’m sure the UK Pirate Party will get a busy month with new members if this grows. A friendly ARRRR! to the crew ;)

The first two times you sign on to some piece of legislative idiocy like this, you get a written warning. The third time you get told to clean your desk and security walks you to the door.

Open wireless connections everywhere seem like one pretty easy way to render such a thing very much harder to enforce — basically, an “I am Spartacus” movement.

It’s a “report”. That gives the telecoms regulator the power to … we know that bit, grateful thx to BB for the continuing international education.

And it’s a report that the Dark Prince himself “beefed up”. Forget free holidays, that’s not his style. This guy wants to suck all of the energy out of the universe. This is serious big interest, private equity and financiers using their new boy for the first time in overt action. Watch closely.

I’ve said before – when these little bits of pseudo-legislation make it into performance, they can be nasty to get rid of.

If they keep doing crap that is so overtly an attempt to knowingly screw the commonwealth in an attempt to gain more power, they’re going to get smacked back into their place eventually. The idiots are slowly riling up a hornet’s nest.

Anyways, I look forward to bmg.com, sony.com, etc all going down, seeing as for example their rap artists have been sued for sampling other songs.. Every single record label should be cut off of the internet immediately, they’ve all had dozens of copyright suits against them.

(also VERY intersting to note that the first word of my anonymous-posting CAPTCHA is “scumbag”. That says it all :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8217800.stm

“* HADOPI is legally dead because it opposes to fundamental principles of French and European law, including the respect of a fair trial, principle of proportionality and separation of powers. European Parliament has also for the 4th time recalled its opposition to the French text by voting again amendment 138/464, thus voiding the French HADOPI. The law is also not respecting requirements of French constitution regarding a due process, equality in front of the law, and legality of the law, which the Constitutional Court will now have to judge.

* HADOPI is technically dead because it entirely relies on identifying users through their IP address that can be altered or high-jacked in many ways 5. As a consequence, innocents will inevitably be sanctioned. Circumvention techniques are also already largely available. “

She has direct control of this policy area, or did until very recently, and was opposed to the changes because ISPs had rightly told her that it would be impossible to enforce. Note that this policy, whilst preferable, takes no notice of the end consumer; one branch of big business says it’s impossible- bang- in it goes into the Digital Britain report. Another branch of big business tells her superior, Mandelscum, that they want it and- bang- now it’s government policy.

It’s impossible to overstate how little politicians understand IT in general; Baroness Vadera would regularly have screaming hissy fits, demanding that we fetch her the head of IT for the Department because she had forgotten the password to her gmail account. Policy (the supposed knowledge base that politicians use to shape their decisions) was little better; Vadera’s brief for all documents was that they should read like “you’re explaining them to your mother”.

As a side note, why gmail? Because it’s deemed personal and is therefore exempt from Freedom of Information requests. Funny that anyone (read: 90% of politicians) working in the supposed public interest should want to shield so much of their correspondence from public dialogue…

Perhaps there’s more to the dinner with David Geffen in Corfu than we’re being told…perhaps their eyes met over the moussaka and…zap! Kapow!

Or then again, perhaps Mandelson is just another out-of-touch jerk with no judgement -he was after all a big promoter of the costly and farcical Millennium Dome ego-trip…

This would work really well because the politicals could wash their hands of this mess being able to say “there are clear rules in place” to the psychos pushing these laws.
In the mean time no one would every really get in trouble because the rules are utterly incomprehensible.
Carry on

The bigger question is this. Why is British law being effected by American businessmen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7HwwA2x3Qs

Have a nice day, all you bill collectors!!