Us vs Them battle heats up in Sweden
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s now a bitter, full-scale global war between the entertainment industry and the people who used to be its customers.
There are now innumerable corporate divisions set up under various guises specifically to terrorise the general population into becoming compliant consumers of cookie-cutter corporate ‘product’.
Fact, a Hollywood unit, says a third of all Britons are pirates and one of the organisation’s lieutenants says, “As you know the UK has a particular problem with camcording. We don’t have specific legislation here and we are lobbying government to have that specific legislation introduced …”
And in the US, a state governor has just signed a bill to supposedly curb, “the disproportionate amount of music theft occurring on state campus networks via peer-to-peer (p2p) services”.
In Sweden, if a music and movie cartel inspired proposal is adopted, it’ll soon be easier for the entertainment industry is to use local taxpayer funded law enforcement agencies against file sharers.
But Swedish citizens aren’t taking it lying down.
A group called Stoppa IPRED has been started up on Facebook and Moderate Party parliamentarian Karl Sigfrid is trying to change the proposal which was recently sent to the Council on Legislation (Lagrådet), says The Local and, “The youth organizations of all the centre-right political parties are highly critical of the law, says the story, going on »»»
“Throw IPRED in the waste bin,” writes the head of the Centre Party’s youth organization (CUF), Magnus Andersson, on his blog.
He continues, saying that “this is a shitty law” which hunts down file sharers and he criticizes Swedish celebrities for writing a very “low level” argument in their DN article.
The centre-right youth organizations have decided to act in concert in hopes that the government will take their concerns into consideration.
“The idea is that we can write something up together and make things clear to our mother parties. We’re filing an article as we speak,” said Frida Johansson-Metso, head of the Liberal Party’s youth organization, LUF, to SvD.
Stay tuned.
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lobbying government – FACT: a third of all Britons are online pirates, November 14, 2008
supposedly curb – Tennessee governor turns RIAA copyright cop, November 13, 2008
started up – Swedes unite against Big 4 music labels, November 10, 2008
The Local – Lines drawn in battle over file sharing bill, November 14, 2008
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November 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Quote: …“As you know the UK has a particular problem with camcording…”
And the problem can be seen on every corner on every street throughout London and a lot of other parts within the UK. Whenever you leave your flat, smile. You’re on Copper Television. We actually know, the UK has a particular problem with camcording…
November 14th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
YUP
like they say in slashdot , govt sues for company over privacy issues when they allow the wire tapping
facism wants control
FIGHT IT NOW
its like HITLER’s DNA has been encoded into hollywood