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UK Government Wants Google To Police Copyright
judgecorp writes "the UK's culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will this week ask Google to stifle sites deemed to be pirates, pushing them down the listing and cutting off their advertising revenues. The UK government has already outlined plans to make ISPs police copyright breaches by users."
Police wants UK Government To Google Copyright.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
The arguments for decreasing freedom in order to protect human rights are MUCH more compelling than the arguments for slashing freedom in order to protect corporate interests.
Due to the extensive illegal use of their product, police have asked Remington to stop the Mexican drug trade.
Let's just get rid of copyright and replace it with something sane.
Maybe it's a sign of my age, but when someone comes out with a sentence like that, I feel I've got to ask "such as?"
Sure, you'll get plenty of "stick it to the man" positive moderation, but you haven't really made the world a better place, have you? Nor have I, so I'll shut up and crawl back to my coding.
Not when you're Jeremy Hunt. Jeremy Hunt makes Peter Mandelson look like an independent thinker with no influence from corporate interests.
This is the same guy who was going to go ahead and just let Murdoch take full control of BSkyB (the UK's largest broadcast) without question even though OFCOM, responsible for oversight of media in the UK recommended it be further looked into before any go ahead was considered.
Jeremy Hunt is the most corrupt politician in UK politics since Mandelson left the stage. It's not much of a suprise to see him getting involved in this sort of thing. He's one of those types who might as well just come out and admit that he'll do whatever the highest bidder pays him too, because everyone else already knows it to be true anyway.
It's not Google's (or any other search engine's) responsibility to enforce all laws of all countries. They're a search engine, not cops. Let the police do their own dirty work.
No, but anybody who does any meaningful amount of trade with the US is having ACTA crammed down their throat as a condition of continuing to do to so.
Sadly, any country which hasn't begun to criminalize it isn't being given a whole lot of options. The world is now so beholden to copyright, it isn't even funny any more.
It's a treaty they won't make public, which makes it all about what they want, and you and I can go get stuffed.
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