Shock result (not): in another depressingly familiar sellout, the ConDem government is not going to repeal the Digital Economy Act. You might remember this epic law fail that was passed just before the election. It was New Labour’s dying gift to the corporate media/culture industry. It allows them to accuse people of infringing copyright, at [...]

Last week, the UK parliament showed its utter bankruptcy by passing the spectacularly bad Digital Economy Act into law with virtually no debate. The law as regards the internet in the UK is now a total shambles, a pigs ear which has been written by the corporate culture industry to safeguard their own profits. Noted [...]

The Open Rights Group, which is campaigning against the draconian Digital Economy Bill, say: “On Thursday, our ‘Police’ visited the offices of the BPI, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties, and UK Music, and presented them with notice that the Digital Economy Bill is disconnected, from democracy, human rights, public opinion and sound business sense” [...]

As Leftfield has already reported, Labour, the Tories and Lib Dems have been united on at least one thing in the run up to the election: their desire to allow the corporate culture industry write the law when it comes to filesharing on the internet. The epic law fail that is the Digital Economy Bill [...]

Ask any kid: pirates are cool. The seven seas, treasure, saying “Aaarrrr!!”. All that shit is gold. For years the record industry tried to make downloading music and filesharing sound more dodgy than it was by calling it “piracy.” They’ve now come finally to realise they’ve created a monster. Not only do we all love [...]