governments routinely dismiss advice from independent entity’s in order to futher their own cause, the beauty is that torrentfreak and other news sites pickup on these independent reviews and the govt is seen to be listening when in reality when the time comes they will rush through Pro-copyright laws or whatever laws fit their agenda.

I’ve not read any of their shit yet, but some of the titles of those Department for Business, Innovation and Science (ie BIS) “Impact Assessment” documents look awfully intriguing and potentially VERY helpful too. Eg
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BIS0315: Protecting copyright exceptions from override by contract (87Kb)
BIS0316: Introducing / widening certain copyright exceptions (120Kb)
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BIS0155: Copyright exception for private copying (259Kb)
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BIS1057: Copyright exception for parody (103Kb)

TF readers should note that this is a PUBLIC consultation and anyone anywhere on Planet Earth may respond by 21 March 2012.

So I urge all you guys to snatch a copy of ALL available documents, read through them at your leisure and send in as much or as little comment as you see fit – just make it relevant to the actual Consultation please.

I’ve asked the IPO (ie the Imaginary Property Office) to send me a hard copy to my home address, but you can download all their shit from here
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/pro-policy/consult/consult-live/consult-2011-copyright.htm

But wait this is interesting. It requires precisely the data I always question on most studies, be them supportive or not of file sharing. There are very few studies that are actually credible out there if you take your time to analyse the methodology of the analysis and data collection.

This should be interesting.

The UK movie association is funded by the MPAA. So is New Zealand’s, Sweden’s, and most other countries with a movie industry. They talk and collude and find ways to buy off politicians to pass these godawful legislation. If they had less access to the politicians, or if they had to fund more politicians to buy off, the incentive to buy those in Congress may not be there. Then they wouldn’t be able to sell out other countries and their civil rights.