According to this Daily Telegraph piece last week the introduction of anti-piracy measures in the Digital Economy Bill will cost consumers up to £500 million annually.
Here's an idea, if we're going to seriously entertain pursuing this, why not give the entire sum of money instead to copyright owners – artists and record labels – and in return have them give consumers all their digital music for free.
It might sound radical but just try thinking of it as a new business model and it's not so scary.
great idea, at least it wouldn't be wasted then! It will be wasted if they do what they intend to do, because pirates are 100% smarter than they are. All the digibill will do is annoy everyone and possibly break t'internet. It is written by fwits who don't get IT. For an obsolete business model. It can never work.
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I work for the Open Rights Group, who are campaigning against the Digital Economy Bill on the basis that it is unfair and disproportionate.
ReplyDeleteWe're asking UK citizens to get in touch with their MP and explain to them why the Bill must be stopped, and possibly to meet them at one of their surgeries to discuss the specific problematic points of the Bill in detail.
We believe that visits and letters from voters will help change the minds of MPs currently for the proposals; our representatives will then see that people care about their rights and, as their duty is to vote in accordance with constituents' opinions, we hope that they will then oppose the Bill.
If you, or your readers, want to know more details about the specific problems picked out by ORG and its supporters, don't know who your MP is, need help with wording a letter or arranging a meeting with them, drop me an email - katie@openrightsgroup.org - and I'll do my best to get you the information you need; all you have to do is the talking.