2009/10/20 Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian McNeil > <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org> wrote: > > Joking aside, I think that if I had a moment alone with Peter > Mandelson and could curb my violent impulses for five minutes, I'd put > it to him that cutting off someone's internet for illegal downloading > is a punishment liable to be suffered as much by the innocent as the > guilty.
Can you get him to meet some famous musicians? Childhood TV stars perhaps? No? Your opinion means approx diddly squat then. Flick through http://dominicseuroblog.wordpress.com/ if you want to see the kind of tactics used. > I'd also like to tell Mandy that copyright terms of life plus 70 years > is helping a select few whilst denying huge amounts of culture to the > many and that owning something for 70 years after YOU'RE FRICKIN' DEAD > is unlikely to be the spur to activity the government thinks it is. In > addition, a next generation that inherits income from copyrighted > works actually is disincentivised from getting a job if the income > from the copyright is sufficient to support them. The government > normally *loathes* people who don't go out to work, but apparently > it's fine if your dad happens to have written The Da Vinci Code. At this point dropping below life+70 isn't going to happen. There isn't much of a campaign to extend it beyond that though. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
