Hadopi, en anglais, ça se prononce “fuck you”:
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it’s perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the “three-strikes” rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without proof or evidence or trial),
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But that’s just for starters. The real meat is in the story we broke yesterday: Peter Mandelson, the unelected Business Secretary, would have to power to make up as many new penalties and enforcement systems as he likes. And he says he’s planning to appoint private militias financed by rightsholder groups who will have the power to kick you off the internet, spy on your use of the network, demand the removal of files or the blocking of websites, and Mandelson will have the power to invent any penalty, including jail time, for any transgression he deems you are guilty of. And of course, Mandelson’s successor in the next government would also have this power.
(Cory Doctorow, Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse)
Que dire de plus sur cette folie furieuse qui piétine tous les droits (sauf ceux de quelques industries), si ce n’est ce qu’en dit Cory Doctorow :
This is as bad as I’ve ever seen, folks. It’s a declaration of war by the entertainment industry and their captured regulators against the principles of free speech, privacy, freedom of assembly, the presumption of innocence, and competition.
(UK government plan to create “Pirate Finder General” with power to appoint militias, create laws)
Ou encore ce qu’en dit Charles Stross: “Imbeciles”.