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Joint select committee’s file sharing concerns

// February 5th, 2010 // p2p

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- “The internet is constantly creating new challenges for policy-makers but that cannot justify ill-defined or sweeping legislative responses, especially when there is the possibility of restricting freedom of expression or the privacy of individual users,” says Andrew Dismore. He’s the chairman of Britain’s Joint Select Committee on Human Rights comporising 12 members from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The committee had examined the parts of the Bill “that focus on plans to tackle illegal file-sharing as well as a controversial amendment to copyright law”, says the BBC . “The concern we have with this Bill is that it lacks detail,” it has Dismore saying. “It has been difficult, even in the narrow area we have focussed on, to get a clear picture of the scope and impact of the provisions.” As the story points out, the “three strikes rule”, a corporate entertainment industry innovation, “would give regulator Ofcom new powers to disconnect or slow down the connections of persistent net pirates”. The committee “had concerns about ‘technical measures’ like these and how they would be applied.” It also examined Clause 17 which would give the government free rein to alter copyright law without passing further primary legislation. The Committee “remains concerned that Clause 17 remains overly broad and that parliamentary scrutiny may remain inadequate,” the story adds. It’s interesting how the three strikes thingy, part of the ACTA package being introduced around the world by the entertainment cartels, is always presented by the lamescream press corpse as though it’s a local government, and not corporate,  ‘initiative’. - … .. … and identi.ca More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi BBC – File-sharing bill could ‘breach rights’, February 5, 2010 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/feed -? -