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Thousands of people send a protests letter to the British Minister who wants "to disconnect of Internet to the pirates"
09/12/2009
In the fight against the piracy, there is more and more popular the famous "French model", which carries out "three notices" to the people who download files protected by author's copyright. This is a controversial matter especially because of the effect of the measure, not because it is an effective application or not really possible.
In the last hours, the British government has proved to be very favorable to the application of this model of three notices in his country. If the law goes out, the disconnections might be effected from 2011. As The Guardian gathers, the minister Peter Mandelson has explained it in the following way: "we do not hope that massive suspensions of the service take place. The people will receive two notifications and if it comes near to the point of disconnecting them of the Network, they will have the opportunity to resort". Mandelson has tried to justify the measure explaining that from each every twenty downloads of songs in his Country, only one of them is download in "legal" way.
Nonetheless, after this new was spread, numerous groups, bloggers, and professionals of diverse areas have confront to Mandelson's offer. Music As Follows has had access to the letter that the blogger and expert in technologies Hannah Nicklin has sent to the minister.
Here we gather the most important from the missive polemic:
-“I do not have money to make a lobby in the same level as the musical industry do, this is the reason why I talk as somebody who invest in the on line world”.
- "If there is an economy online, the currency is the information. And if we take part in the on line world, we are investing our information, our content in this world. So I go as an investor now".
- "To disconnect the Internet people is something that does not comply with the legislation of the European Union ".
- It is almost impossible to have succeed with the resolutions of the judicial processes that this law would provoke, if we bear in mind that it is very easy to use the wireless connections of the others, or that it exists familiar connections, connections for the whole company, or general connection for a building.
- " Me and many of my companions, we are not asking to put on end(purpose to the creative industries, are asking for changes in a very concrete aspect of these industries: the distribution. It is not a question of a Utopia, but it is a question that the form in which we consume is changing ".
- "(…) they seem to be determined to continue forward. So let me say that the law of three notices will not work because we are not going to let it work. Nobody will do it ".
- "Besides the inability to chase and supervise all the people who unload or exchange files in the P2P nets, we will prevent that they sanction none of them".
- " If you start cutting the access of the persons to Internet, then they all those who are able to afford the luxury of doing it will create insecure wireless alternative networks in the whole country ".
- " If you close the webs that connect to the files, we are going to use private chats to discuss what we want, and we will create private systems of storage to share contents ".
- "You are trying to solve a digital problem using analogical solutions. We are anonymous and we are everywhere. Do not fight against us, do not push us, it is better that you help to the industry to be reformed and to commercialize of a sustainable way".
According to the information obtained by Music As Follows, the letter of Hannah Nicklin is being sent in this moment to the minister of Company of the country by thousands of Britishers.
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