This is a long, rambling post, in which I’m basically working out some ideas as I go. If you’re going to inflict it upon yourself, I suggest having access to a cup of tea and a comfy chair. Update: This article from today’s Independent basically backs up everything I wrote Read more…
The hour is late: this Thursday Harriet Harman MP, Leader of the House of Commons, will detail the government’s plan for the Digital Economy Bill. She must be informed now that the bill requires proper debate. You can do this quickly and easily thanks to 38Degrees. Click here to add Read more…
Following advice from Glyn Wintle, who pointed out that MPs can take no response as meaning satisfaction, I have written again to my MP Charles Clarke regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You can read my original letter here, and read Mr Clarke’s original reply here. Here is my new response: Read more…
I wrote a letter to my MP, Charles Clarke, regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You can read that letter here. I’m very pleased to say that I received a personalised response two days later, albeit from one of his researchers rather than from Mr Clarke himself – although this is Read more…
Further to the misguided, disastrous amendments to the Digital Economy Bill brought in earlier in the week, Thursday saw the situation – somehow – get even worse, with the attempt to outlaw ‘web lockers’ such as YounSendIt and Dropbox. Cory Doctorow explains it here. Web lockers enable people to upload Read more…
Quick post, more thoughts to come later… To paraphrase a Michael Bay film, this shit just got real. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are positing an amendment to the bill that takes it into even scarier territory, enabling mass censorship of websites based on unsubstatiated claims of copyright Read more…