Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, ...

Courtesy Linux Today  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 21:03

Boing Boing: "The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible.

It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry..."


 

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