Digital Economy... yeah, right

[lostcarpark]

I've been following the UK's Digital Economy bill, particularly well tweeted by sirliminal, which has unfortunately been pushed through parliament by spineless MPs, afraid or unwilling to stand up to the music industry. Well done to the few MPs who stood up to their party whips. It has a few more stages to go through before becomming law, so let's hope sense will be seen.

By a strange coincidence I had a call yesterday from Eircom, asking why I'd left them. I told them that I would not be returning as long as they had a unilateral agreement to cut users off at the industry's request, without proper due process. If an ISP will stand up and proclaim "we will only cut people off if order to by a court," then they deserve my business, even if they cost a little more.

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Actually Eircom were famously forced into that agreement to head off being sued to destruction so they probably like it about as much as you do..

[daniellelavigne.livejournal.com]

The entertainment distributors are part of the same old guard that gets elected to parliament year after year after year. Conservativism rules in the places of power.

The average artist and voter do not want it, and do not need it. But they get it anyway.