UK's Digital Economy Bill is a gift to copyright trolls, with 10 years in prison for watching TV the wrong way
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2C2QV)
Jim from the UK Open Rights Group writes, "Why has the UK's Digital Economy Bill been drafted to criminalise file sharing and minor online copyright infringements? The government said they just wanted to bring online infringement into line with 'real world' fake DVD offences. However, that isn't how they offence is drawn up: and the government has now been told in Parliament twice that they are both criminalising minor infringements and helping copyright trolls." (more")