An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
- March 22, 2024
February 9, 2017 06:38 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SNPhYkMGp-E/uks-digital-economy-bill-is.html
UK's Digital Economy Bill is a gift to copyright trolls, with 10 years in prison for watching TV the wrong way
Jim from the UK Open Rights Group writes, "Why has the UK's Digital Economy Bill been drafted to criminalise file sharing and minor online copyright infringements? The government said they just wanted to bring online infringement into line with 'real world' fake DVD offences. However, that isn't how they offence is drawn up: and the government has now been told in Parliament twice that they are both criminalising minor infringements and helping copyright trolls." (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SNPhYkMGp-E/uks-digital-economy-bill-is.html
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article