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• teapot commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  In the interest of furthering the crumble of the record industry - here are two sites that keep me entertained: http://www.kerevizli.com/ http://mixtapemixtape.com/...
• Akula971 commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  The Labour government in the UK has been making figures up for years, unemployment, immigration, time it takes for Saddam to unleash mythical WMD on the UK, their expenses, school league tables, exam results, you name it they can make it up. The corrupt evil sethlord Mandleson just wants more power. Meanwhile the ISPs know that if they make any attempt to limit or cut off P2P users, legal or otherwise, then who will need those fat 20MB-50MB internet connections? You can surf, email, play games quite well on a 2MB connection. So the ISP's will do nothing that is...
• RevEng commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  By this point we can all agree that: a) The music, software, and other industries get whatever they want through skewed research and intensive lobbying. b) The government will do whatever they want, even if the majority doesn't want it, and that means they'll do whatever the people with money want them to do. c) The current laws are already out of line with what the majority of people consider acceptable and the new laws being introduced are even further from what the majority considers acceptable. With all that in mind, what do we do about it? Lobbying the government...
• adwkiwi commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  The most important thing everyone should get from this article is how awesome More or Less is. You should all be listening to it if you aren't already....
• shadowfirebird commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  @24: Oddly enough, the government rarely tell us the names. You would think that they were trying to keep us in the dark or something ... naaah....