Lib Dems sellout on the internet

Shock result (not): in another depressingly familiar sellout, the ConDem government is not going to repeal the Digital Economy Act. You might remember this epic law fail that was passed just before the election. It was New Labour’s dying gift to the corporate media/culture industry. It allows them to accuse people of infringing copyright, at [...]

The revolution will be tweeted.

In a stunning victory for the working classes in both Scotland and Venezuela, and much to the chagrin of the imperialist pigdogs that control the media, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has announced that he is to employ 200 new staff members to help him deal with the daily deluge of twitter @replies he is [...]

Corporate culture industry exploits child abuse for political gain

Christian Engström, a Swedish MEP for the Pirate Party, reports how a Danish anti-piracy lawyer explained at an American Chambers of Commerce seminar in 2007 that the music and film industries were cynically exploiting the sexual abuse of children for political gain. “Child pornography is great,” said Johan Schlüter, a lawyer for the Danish Anti-Piracy [...]

Law Fail

Last week, the UK parliament showed its utter bankruptcy by passing the spectacularly bad Digital Economy Act into law with virtually no debate. The law as regards the internet in the UK is now a total shambles, a pigs ear which has been written by the corporate culture industry to safeguard their own profits. Noted [...]

Noteworthy Modern Occurences: The Digital Economy Bill

The Open Rights Group, which is campaigning against the draconian Digital Economy Bill, say: “On Thursday, our ‘Police’ visited the offices of the BPI, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties, and UK Music, and presented them with notice that the Digital Economy Bill is disconnected, from democracy, human rights, public opinion and sound business sense” [...]

Cracks starting to show on Digital Economy Bill

As Leftfield has already reported, Labour, the Tories and Lib Dems have been united on at least one thing in the run up to the election: their desire to allow the corporate culture industry write the law when it comes to filesharing on the internet. The epic law fail that is the Digital Economy Bill [...]

Industry finally realises: Pirates are cool

Ask any kid: pirates are cool. The seven seas, treasure, saying “Aaarrrr!!”. All that shit is gold. For years the record industry tried to make downloading music and filesharing sound more dodgy than it was by calling it “piracy.” They’ve now come finally to realise they’ve created a monster. Not only do we all love [...]

Labour, Tories and Lib Dems ganging up to break ur internets!

At the coming election the three major UK parties will work hard to convince you that there’s a big difference between them, and that they deserve your vote more than others. But Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems are all united in their desire to make the internet shite. The government’s Digital Economy Bill [...]

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