So, the debate over music piracy is hotting up nicely. Beehive City includes a face-off between the ‘save our music’ BPI and the internet freedom brigade in the form of Carphone Warehouse. Every day I want to side with the BPI, because British music matters, and every day I am not sure that the...
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Politics
Swords drawn over music piracy
Go on, let’s censor the internet here then
Just had a nicely alarmist conversation about the controversial King Henry VIII clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill. That’s the one which, if passed, would allow ministers to make changes to copyright law with no further votes in parliament. It’s a boring sort of clause on the face of it, but it could...
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