Ruling with Good Intentions
From The FT
The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films.
Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it.
A creative industries strategy paper published on Friday commits the government to consulting on anti-piracy legislation this spring “with a view to implementing it by April 2009”.
Just over a year away.
The strategy paper will not set out a blueprint for how the legislation would work. “We’re saying we’ll consult on legislation, recognising there are practical questions and legitimate issues,” Mr Burnham said.
Practical questions? Some very rich companies employing very smart, highly motivated people have tried solving this problem, and have pretty much given up on it because they know it’s not possible. Yet somehow, the government, a group of people who think still think moving CDs around is the answer, think there’s some practical way to solve it in just over a year.
You might as well legislate against reincarnation or in favour of the whole country being fusion powered by then for all the good it will do.
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