| How we all laughed at the Americans and their litigious society when the RIAA started sending out sub-poenas to their customers and asking for and getting private information from the ISPs. And their politicians proposing that if you share music files you should go to jail and your computer was fair game for the RIAA to hack and destroy. Thankful of course that "it could never happen here". Well folks, the legal underpinnings for exactly the same crass behaviour designed to protect dinosaurs from extinction will be in place in the EU and UK in October 2003. The BPI are already rubbing their hands at the possibility of being able to go after their customers using legal means. When music ("with a repetitive beat" c 1984, M Thatcher) is made illegal, the goal of total criminalization will be complete. |
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