From the Open Rights Group's Glyn Wintle who sometimes gets stories posted on/.
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They time ran out in parliament so they did not get to the digital economy act clause. So it will not make it into the bill.
Julian tweeted "Thanks all who contacted their MP about my #deact amendment; lots of MPs talked to me about it. Sadly, we'll have no time to debate it." "So... My #deact amendment wasn't reached in time, so wasn't taken. I'll keep looking for opportunities!"
Dr Huppert mentioned the Digital Economy Act 2010. He will be aware that the Government announced in August that they did not intend to commence sections 17 and 18 of the Act. There might not be time to debate his new clause, but we are now working on a wide-scale review of the communications sector with a view to publishing a Green Paper by the spring of next year, and a draft Bill by mid-2013. Policy on tackling online copyright infringement, including site-blocking, is being considered as part of that review and, given our intention to conduct that wide-ranging review, it would be premature to act now to repeal sections 17 and 18 of the Act in isolation from any other legislative changes that might be needed.
There was also a ammendment that was not reached that said some thing about charging for data, that could be interesting if any one has time to look at what it was about.
So someone will just rent a big pipe from a company that's not signed up to this, split it and sell it on (full encrypted) to downline customers. Sounds like a business model to me...
Another thought - do corporations realise that their 'net feeds will be deep packet sniffed to look for copyright infringing material? I wonder how much they will like the ISPs no longer being just a bunch of tubes...
For all the people who are complaining about the deletionist asshats download Wikipedia and provide a *fork*. Tell people it's better - spread the word.
I don't pirate software (there's enough very good free stuff out there).
I don't pirate movies (anything worth having is worth buying on DVD).
I don't pirate music (same as DVDs).
However I do download 7-10 TV episodes off usenet every week. I pull them the day after they are on in the US as they won't be shown here in the UK for months - if at all.
What I can never understand is why Murdoch et al don't sign deals with the American networks to show their channels as part of their cable / satellite packages. Same goes for the BBC in American (the "proper" BBC channels - not BBC world).
If I could just record these shows on my PVR my own "piracy" would drop off to almost nothing (and the networks would get me watching more adverts instead of my current number of zero).
Actually Symbian are committed to Open Source as a way of getting more people to develop on their platform (and hence get more phones into the mid-range market).
For details about how to get freeware apps signed (for nothing) have a look here.
The link at the end of the article is actually to a petition that I set up over a year ago. It's usefulness (if any) is long since past. The most it did for me was to highlight how crap petitiononline are (no way to alter anything after the petition goes up and no responce to tech support requests).
The best way to influence the future of the show is buy the DVDs in record numbers in the hopes of Universal exercising their rights to make the movie.
To get it out the way first I had a good time at highschool (here in the UK). I was an outsider but I was lucky enough to go to a school where there was enough of us to form our own clique for safety.
Saying that, it does get to me when I read page after page of high-school horror stories, especially from the younger kids.
So the question is what, if anything, are we going to do about it? It's one thing to read the posts and say "oh, it's all so terrible" and another thing to try and make a difference of some kind.
For example, I'm a member of Amnesty International and while, obviously, I'm not comparing bullied highschool kids to prisoners of conscience it seems to me that one of AI's tactics, the Urgent Action Network, might also work in some of these cases. The UAN gets it's members to send emails and faxes from all over the world to highlight that people are aware of wrongdoings that have occured. I wonder how a school would react if the Principle came in on a Monday morning to find 100 faxes from all over the world asking him to comment on his bullying problem!
Realistically I don't have the time to set up and run such a system but I would be very happy to take part. What these kids really need is to know that they're not alone and that someone recognises that they have a problem. I would hope that this idea, which I'm sure is only one of many out there, might help them understand that.
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From the Open Rights Group's Glyn Wintle who sometimes gets stories posted on /.
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They time ran out in parliament so they did not get to the digital economy act clause. So it will not make it into the bill.
Julian tweeted "Thanks all who contacted their MP about my #deact amendment; lots of MPs talked to me about it. Sadly, we'll have no time to debate it." ... My #deact amendment wasn't reached in time, so wasn't taken. I'll keep looking for opportunities!"
"So
The minister did say it would be
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-10-10a.80.0&s=Digital+Economy#g87.3
Dr Huppert mentioned the Digital Economy Act 2010. He will be aware that the Government announced in August that they did not intend to commence sections 17 and 18 of the Act. There might not be time to debate his new clause, but we are now working on a wide-scale review of the communications sector with a view to publishing a Green Paper by the spring of next year, and a draft Bill by mid-2013. Policy on tackling online copyright infringement, including site-blocking, is being considered as part of that review and, given our intention to conduct that wide-ranging review, it would be premature to act now to repeal sections 17 and 18 of the Act in isolation from any other legislative changes that might be needed.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/10/12/uk-government-to-review-deact-isp-website-blocking-as-part-of-new-comms-bill.html
There was also a ammendment that was not reached that said some thing about charging for data, that could be interesting if any one has time to look at what it was about.
So someone will just rent a big pipe from a company that's not signed up to this, split it and sell it on (full encrypted) to downline customers. Sounds like a business model to me...
Another thought - do corporations realise that their 'net feeds will be deep packet sniffed to look for copyright infringing material? I wonder how much they will like the ISPs no longer being just a bunch of tubes...
If this angers you then join the Open Rights Group (the UK equivalent of the EEF).
For all the people who are complaining about the deletionist asshats download Wikipedia and provide a *fork*. Tell people it's better - spread the word.
If you care, make the effort.
I don't pirate software (there's enough very good free stuff out there).
I don't pirate movies (anything worth having is worth buying on DVD).
I don't pirate music (same as DVDs).
However I do download 7-10 TV episodes off usenet every week. I pull them the day after they are on in the US as they won't be shown here in the UK for months - if at all.
What I can never understand is why Murdoch et al don't sign deals with the American networks to show their channels as part of their cable / satellite packages. Same goes for the BBC in American (the "proper" BBC channels - not BBC world).
If I could just record these shows on my PVR my own "piracy" would drop off to almost nothing (and the networks would get me watching more adverts instead of my current number of zero).
Actually Symbian are committed to Open Source as a way of getting more people to develop on their platform (and hence get more phones into the mid-range market).
For details about how to get freeware apps signed (for nothing) have a look here.
The best way to influence the future of the show is buy the DVDs in record numbers in the hopes of Universal exercising their rights to make the movie.
In the meantime:
- My Firefly FAQ
- My Firefly Fanzine (please feel free to help!)
- The official bulletin board
- UK mailing list
If the server hosting some of those is eaten (is highly possible) feel free to mail me (dave at bowsy.co.uk).Keep Flyin'
If, like me, you'd like to keep firefly on the air there's a lot of things you can do:
Check out Firefly Immediate Assistance
Sign the Online petition
Post on the show's bulletin board
Email Fox
Write to fox at:
FOX BROADCASTING CO
ATTN: SANDY GRUSHOW, CHAIRMAN, FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
10201 WEST PICO BLVD
LOS ANGELES CA 90035
Write to the sponsors
If you live in the UK email Sky (Fox UK) to pick up the show
More than anything if anyone you know is a "Neilsen Family" then please get them to what the pilot "Serenity" when it airs in December.
Fan campaigns do work and have in the past entended the runs of both Buffy and Roswell.
There is already a fan-contribution paid-for full-page advert going into the December 9th issue of L.A. Variety.
Don't give up hope yet! :-)
Saying that, it does get to me when I read page after page of high-school horror stories, especially from the younger kids.
So the question is what, if anything, are we going to do about it? It's one thing to read the posts and say "oh, it's all so terrible" and another thing to try and make a difference of some kind.
For example, I'm a member of Amnesty International and while, obviously, I'm not comparing bullied highschool kids to prisoners of conscience it seems to me that one of AI's tactics, the Urgent Action Network, might also work in some of these cases. The UAN gets it's members to send emails and faxes from all over the world to highlight that people are aware of wrongdoings that have occured. I wonder how a school would react if the Principle came in on a Monday morning to find 100 faxes from all over the world asking him to comment on his bullying problem!
Realistically I don't have the time to set up and run such a system but I would be very happy to take part. What these kids really need is to know that they're not alone and that someone recognises that they have a problem. I would hope that this idea, which I'm sure is only one of many out there, might help them understand that.
Thoughts?