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UK Internet Filtering Bill Watered Down
superapecommando writes in with news that in the UK, Liberal Democratic peers will soften their filtering amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, to allow those wrongfully accused of illegal filesharing to sue the rightsholders in court. The previous version of the Bill had drawn instant criticism from some of the world's largest technology companies, including eBay, Google, and Yahoo, who signed an open letter against the filtering proposal. Blogger Glyn Moody summed up opposition to the Bill, stating that in its previous form, it was "utterly one-sided, where the only winners are a music recording industry too lazy to change, and the losers are everyone else."
What is wrong with the UK? All I ever see are stories about another stupid thing you guys are doing.
Not trolling. Think about it. Slashdot is like 7% stories about stupid privacy/internet stories from the UK.
Thios story is typical pro-piracy slashdot spin.
Th industry too lazy to change? Maybe you can inform us of how you 'change' to accomodate the fact that people are takuing your output for free and not paying a single penny? Perhaps all of the very experienced business owners here at slashdot could emerge from moms basement and explain how you make a living that way with music?
laughable.
And ncie to see that the businesses that benefit the most from priacy, which is search engines and ISPs, are cheerleading any attempt to water down enforcement of the law. Google loves piracy, and so do the ISP's, because they do not produce fuck all intellectual property.
Businesses and people who actually fucking create stuff for a living rather than just hyperlinking to it are rightfully behind this bill.
You need to grow up little boy.
the copyright industry employs hundreds of thousands of people in the UK alone.
Ignorant children like you better go out and take some courses in bricklaying if you want to pay the bills in a future when ignorant retards such as yourself kill of the whole idea of intellectual property.
Thank god politicians are not as fucking stupid as you. I suggest getting a job, then you mgiht have some fucking perspective.
"The pirate party"
Fucking grow up.