http://government.zdnet.com/?p=7414&utm ... nt=TwitterDoug Hanchard wrote:The home of the Magna Carta may wind up being a digital police state. You will be assumed to be guilty of copyright violation before you log on. The government clearly believes that pub owners, hotels, business people and consumers simply cannot be trusted. If you can’t provide Identification, network management tools and filtering of Internet content for your wireless service, you will not be allowed to offer it. As this unfolds, new questions arise regarding privacy rights (yes /no?) and how this potentially impacts future innovation in the U.K.
If this legislation passes in its current form, Britain’s digital privacy rights will be non-existent.
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Doug Hanchard wrote:In an obscene move, the British Government’s upcoming legislation, the Digital Economy Bill, a key part of law which will reduce abuse of Internet access such as illegal peer-to-peer networking and copyright infringement, may force public wireless access points out of use.
The proposed law, according to CrunchGear, would essentially impose “impossibly high levels of copyright protection by libraries and small businesses