Why should copyright holders be given protection for their creation for life plus ?
Their end effort produces a product of no value

Drug companies spend years developing a drug that saves or improves life, yet are protected for only twenty years
Farmers spend millions and get payed at rates that their grandfathers were payed.
The man who repairs your car does not get payed each time the car starts after a repair.
The plumber does not get payed each time you flush after a repair.
When Girl scouts sell you a cookie it,s yours.
When you buy a car, the manufacture does not have the right to tell you how to drive it.

If no music was played from this day on:
People would not die from its loss
There would be food to eat
there would be cloths to ware
there would be water to drink
there would be homes to live in
there would be cars to drive
there would be air to breath
there would be planes to fly
Life would change very little if at all, music is nothing more then fluff, how it’s become a top priority
for the government is beyond me.
The fluff salesman has done their job well i guess.

Ironic how a supposedly liberal MP is suggesting something that would basically eliminate privacy rights. What this proves is that politicians from every party are corrupt, self serving puppets for industry.

I live in the UK and the ‘Liberal Democrats”‘ are supposed to represent civil liberties/rights. I’m going to contact their leader charles kennedy about this. This MP should be thrown out of their party for suggesting something as damaging as this.

Just like with the Sony debacle and the takedown notices, it will take a bunch of poor victims harmed before they get brave and pull out the stops in the effort to get that one particular harder case to prove. When they pull the stops you will find that just as in the US the laws were poorly thought out because it was rushed into being without proper consideration for the consequences. Those laws won’t just be for the cartels. Here they promised to use those allowances in the laws for the right purposes. Only those are national laws, not laws just for them.

A report surfaces now of the take down being used to stifle competion by wrongfully alleging violations, not by having to prove it. Even those outside the country are using those laws for the same effect. Then you combine it with the DMCA laws that make it illegal to tamper with anticopy in any form and you find that corporations like Microsucks who knew of the rootkit far earlier than when it broke the news. Don’t stop there, what about all the antivirus companies that you pay subscriptions to so that your security is improved and protected on your computers? F-Protect knew of the rootkit at least a month ahead of the story breaking. By their own statements they were in “negotations” with Sony for a month, before the story broke. Yet none of them came right out and issued a fix. All were scared they would be tangled up in the DMCA laws and be held liable for breaking the rootkit and thereby the anticopy.

Again we are seeing the results of hurried and poorly thought out laws in action. The boogyman, “the terrorists” is making all this hurry, hurry, hurry, into the very thing that supposedly they weren’t going to do. All our legal protections are going down the drain as they become more and more totaltarian in government actions to stop the terrorist. Unforetunetly after all the passing of laws they have yet to show where all this actually did anything for catching terrorists. Instead it allows governments full ability without accountablity to spy on anything they deem of interest under the cloak of national security. The terrorists aren’t having to do anything to provoke this action, our own governments are doing it for them.