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U.K. Cracking Down on Net Piracy

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Posted on Jul 25, 2008
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Web “piracy” is an increasingly troublesome subject for copyright owners and governments as Internet use and speed of access continue to rise.

The British government is planning to “significantly reduce” the country’s online file-sharing of copyrighted content, by at least 50 percent, in the next three years through a sequence of warning letters, Internet account suspensions and ultimate expulsion from Internet access.

The approach, which is considerably less harsh than the old U.K. and current U.S. litigation strategies, is a result of a partnership among government officials, Internet service providers and industry folk. No users were involved in the creation of the plan.


The Guardian:

The government has set a secret target to reduce illegal filesharing of music and films by up to 80% over the next three years, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

The goal was outlined in a letter by Baroness Vadera, the business minister, relating to the agreement the government struck with internet service providers and the film and music industries to curb illegal filesharing.

The leaked letter, dated July 22, was sent to all the proposed signatories of the memorandum of understanding which proposes to “significantly reduce” illegal filesharing in the next two to three years.

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By JMCSwan, July 27, 2008 at 5:12 pm Link to this comment

On the day the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke, (if I remember correctly by the Drudge Report), I think it was the same day, or the following day, while the mainstream media was going ballistic with reruns of Monica in her beret, over and over; the CIA Inspector General publicly released their Inspector General Report into their investigation into the CIA’s knowledge of, and condoning thereof, cocaine shipments, etc. into the US; basically acknowledged the truth of Gary Webb’s, Dark Alliance series.

The CIA’s Inspector General’s Report, dealt primarily with their MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

Usual case of ‘look here, look here’ distraction, while ‘over there’ the real issue is being released, or going on, and accordingly goes unnoticed, but for all intents and purposes has been ‘disclosed’ into the public arena, as according to law; just nobody knows about it, cause it’s public, but under the mainstream media radar.

Anyway, entire sad saga documented by Michael Ruppert, whom I would personally nominate for a dozen Pulitzer’s, at the very least; America’s recently contemporary Mark Twain; and his media contemporaries, don’t even have the guts to admit it to themselves. Sad.

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By jersey girl, July 26, 2008 at 9:40 am Link to this comment

Sam: The internet is the last bastion, we the people have, for legitimate news.  Of course, the elite are doing everything in their power now to take that from us.  It will come in increments just as the fascism has.

Are we going to let it? That is the question.  Case in point.. The only place you can find out about Kucinich’s congressional impeachment (or not) hearings is on the internet. MSM has ignored it entirely. In fact, I was even surprised CSPAN covered it. That’s how jaded I’ve become with anything worthwhile being covered anywhere on tv.

Remember the Bill Clinton impeachment circus?  It was all you saw 24/7.  And yet, this corrupt administration, shreds the constitution, lies and tortures and that hearing gets zero coverage.

I don’t know why I bother to rant anymore about this stuff.  I’ve gotten to the point where I even think the Clinton sex scandal was staged as a distraction. That’s what the Obama McCain thing is. Both candidates now sound so similar in policy that there is very little difference to compare. It’s just to keep us distracted and arguing amongst ourselves so that we don’t ask tough questions and the powers that be can continue to do their dirty work behind the curtain.

It all reminds me too much of that movie with Jim Carey called “the Truman Show”.  Where his life was all “staged”, a tv show, without his knowledge.  He thought it was all real until he bumped up against a fake sky while sailing his boat. 

I’ve slammed into that fake sky. I now know, none of what they put before us, via msm, is real.  I just hope we can stop them from taking our only lifeline to information, the internet.

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By samosamo, July 25, 2008 at 11:20 am Link to this comment

I am placing this on this post as it may be what these ‘elites’ are up to. Baroness Vadera, please, is this not a show of how the elites are crawling ever so much more into people’s lives. I know it says the concerns are with the music and film but that still leaves the whole thing wide open to anything else. Any body with a title as above can only mean they are irritated with the way the people try to get information and use it and are as reliable in their function as the few owners of our msm.

Here is the comment from ‘Turn on, Tune in and Change the World’:
Here’s a little diddy that pretty much shows how our msm with its 5 or 6 owners are ‘managing’ things. It is an article from newsweek denying not just an inpending depression, or that we are ‘maybe’ close to a resession but how ‘strong’ our economy really is. I am dumbfounded because I cannot take for granted the accuracy of information coming from a msm source that is owned by one of the only 5 or 6 owners that go that extra mile to be sure you are given the information they want to to have.
And actually I think I will put this comment into the post here about ‘UK to Crack Down on Net Priacy’ as it is most likely related to that and soon to head our way.
But here’s the post:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/148402

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