After all the U-turns by politicians, I got confused about how Three Strikes is developing. I think the current status is Mandelson trying to sneak it through as a Statutory Instrument and protect some of the most protectionist foreign interests ever seen. I’ve written to my MP to express my disagreement.
Andrew Heaney of TalkTalk has submitted a petition “to abolish the proposed law that will see alleged illegal filesharers disconnected from their broadband connections, without a fair trial”. It’s not worded brilliantly, but it covers the vital point – without a fair trial – so I think it’s still worth signing here. Thanks to Glyn Wintle for the updates on fsfe-uk.
Meanwhile, unaccountable copyright collections agent PPL have picked the ideal moment to start harassing local community events. Please give generously: EMI only earned £298,000,000 last year.
If you’ve a bit more time, you could send a Message To Mandelson at ORG. I might not agree with ORG’s structure, but they do make some cool protest sites. (Javascript required to view, as far as I can tell.)
Even more flamboyantly, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling on people to phone up and Stop the Pirate-Finder General!
Glyn Wintle, shirley?
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If it becomes a statutory instrument, we can request a judicial review which should establish that the presumption of guilt and the lack of representation make the whole thing unlawful.
K3n.
Good catch AH – fixed. I’d been reading t’other Glyn elsewhere far too much lately.
Sigh. Politicians get paid to push these kinds of things through while we have to continuously fight them without having all of our time to dedicate. And the moment we give up, they win by default.
I really wish some means existed to preempt these things once and for all, so we didn’t have to maintain a constant vigil against it.