U.K. Approves Crackdown on Internet Pirates
The UK Parliament has adopted a new broadband bill. This story leads with the Draconian anti-piracy provision adopted at the behest of the motion picture industry. Indeed, content owners in the US would love to get the same kind of legislation. Other interesting aspects of the bill were dropped, including one which would have subsidized private journalism.
U.K. Approves Crackdown on Internet Pirates
PARIS – The British Parliament on Thursday approved plans to crack down on digital media piracy by authorizing the suspension of repeat offenders’ Internet connections.
Following the House of Commons late Wednesday, the House of Lords on Thursday approved the bill after heavy lobbying from the music and movie industries, which say they suffer huge losses from unauthorized copying over the Internet.
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