When the "Gowers Report" on copyright first came out in the UK, we pointed out that it had a lot of bad ideas included.
The one good point was that copyright length shouldn't be extended any more. So, now that the UK is planning to ignore that one good suggestion, it's moving forward with plans to implement the bad suggestions in the report -- such as increasing the fines for online copyright infringement by 10x .
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