Government announces new ISP legislation
Jan. 29th, 2009 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Our response to the consultation on peer-to-peer file sharing sets out our intention to legislate, requiring ISPs to notify alleged infringers of rights (subject to reasonable levels of proof from rights- holders) that their conduct is unlawful," said the report. "We also intend to require ISPs to collect anonymised information on serious repeat infringers (derived from their notification activities), to be made available to rights-holders together with personal details on receipt of a court order."
I'd like to see some detail on the word "reasonable" there...
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Date: 2009-01-29 06:19 pm (UTC)From the government comment just the other day: Mr Lammy [Intellectual Property minister] said legislation would be too complex.
"We can't have a system where we're talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms," he told The Times newspaper.
WTF?!?!
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Date: 2009-01-29 06:35 pm (UTC)The Reasonable Man was essentially a cartoon character in my head when I sat my civil law exams - he can be imbued with all sorts of characteristics which means that you never quite know where you stand, tbh.