UK 3-Strikes MP Ignorant on File-Sharing

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Sat, 10/03/2009 - 07:05

Sion Simon , a Labour MP from Birmingham and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Creative Industries at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, spoke out earlier this week at the National Labour Party Conference in Brighton on the proposed UK 3-strikes laws.

“The lesson of iTunes and Spotify is that what people want is ease of use and convenience and cheapness.

And you only have to look at the decrease there has been in filesharing since...


 

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