We need enough of the right sort of people to start running their own ISP (and associated services) - one which sticks by the "innocent until proven guilty" principle and requires decent evidence from complainers before taking seriously any accusations of plagiarism and defamation. Then all the rest of the decent people could join that one instead. Too many of the existing internet operations are run by scum (the incompetent as well as the corrupt) who are inclined to believe and act on unsubstantiated complaints by dishonest people.
That assumes the law will allow decent ISPs to do that.
From http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/britains-new-interne.html: "A duty on ISPs to spy on all their customers in case they find something that would help the record or film industry sue them (ISPs who refuse to cooperate can be fined £250,000)."
And the Bill enables secondary legislation to be used to add arbitrary extra powers practically any time the Secretary of State feels like it.
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Date: 2009-11-23 12:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-11-24 12:49 pm (UTC)From http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/britains-new-interne.html:
"A duty on ISPs to spy on all their customers in case they find something that would help the record or film industry sue them (ISPs who refuse to cooperate can be fined £250,000)."
And the Bill enables secondary legislation to be used to add arbitrary extra powers practically any time the Secretary of State feels like it.
The government did (to some extent) listen to criticism of the way the
Coroners and Justice Bill allowed ministers to override data protection rules if they felt like it, so there's some hope of the disproportionate measures in this being similarly reduced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/19/coroners-justice-bill
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snha-05001.pdf
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2009/feb/uk-ml-convention-clause-152-briefing.pdf
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Date: 2009-11-24 10:20 am (UTC)