Mandelson Wants Gov't To Have Sweeping Powers To Protect Copyrig...

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 13:43

As pretty much everyone who reads Techdirt has been submitting today, Lord Peter Mandelson over in the UK -- the guy who just discovered copyright law after a resort vacation dinner with entertainment industry mogul David Geffen -- wants to go even further in changing copyright law against consumers' rights.

We already know that he was the major force behind getting the UK to move forward with a plan to kick file sharers off the internet based...


 

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