Richard's Kingdom

Flying in the face of reason, evidence, society, human rights, Europe and the conclusions of its own Digital Britain report, the Government yesterday announced legislation to disconnect from the Internet anyone accused of copyright infringement online.
No, that isn’t a typo, you read correctly: accused. Not guilty. Accused.
There’s more: today Cory Doctorow claimed on his blog [...]

I’m disgusted by the Government’s new DNA database proposals being laid out as a “consultation” today. Jacqui Smith’s transparent attempts at spin are risible. So is any claim by this Government that it values freedom, civil liberties or the presumption of innocence.
SIX TO TWELVE YEARS. That’s the length of time Smith wants to keep the [...]

I got ambushed at Lug Radio Live by Craig Smith of O’ReillyGMT and managed to mumble something like “copyright term extension, bad. Public domain, good” into his video camera…

Open Rights Group – Copyright Extension from oreillygmt on Vimeo.
Like an idiot, I managed to get our own URL wrong, so here are those links again in [...]

The EU has voted to cap charges for using mobile phones while abroad in Europe, but the measure only applies to voice calls. The cost of roaming text messages and data will remain extortionate.
Cost reductions for the consumer are predicted, but I suspect that in such a competitive market, providers will simply increase charges elsewhere [...]