The Consenting Adults Action Network (CAAN) have just published a book (booklet?) by Jane Fae Ozimek (one of the last projects written as John Ozimek) - Beyond the Circle. I got my copy of it the other week and have read it over the past couple of days (the joy of a nicely timed work commute).

I am still at a loss as to what the recording industry think they've gotten with the Digital Economy Bill which passed the Commons late last night. MPs have been throwing around industry figures in the hundreds of millions of pounds lost due to piracy. They seem to be willfully ignoring the argument that one download does not equal one lost sale (and may indeed lead to multiple extra purchases).

Lots of Phorm activity today. First of all, BBC News reports that "Home Office 'colluded with Phorm'".

Below is attached the final text version of the letter sent to Helen Southworth and passed onto the Digital Britain Team. I believe it is not listed in the responses to the report but believe this is because they considered it private correspondence rather than because they are hiding it (the letter did have my name and address on it originally so I've snipped that from this copy). The bit in italics was a footnote in the original.

So, I finished the response to the Digital Rights Agency Report mentioned in my earlier post (interesting has a very high (for this site) viewing figures very quickly). So that it's available in an accessible form as possible I have reproduced it below and attached the final version in ODF.

I hope it goes without saying that this is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License as is all content posted to this site. I'm going to try and do all such comments in a similar format (rather than the letter) and am also trying to put together some form of bio I can attach so that'll be going up soon too.

Recently, the Digital Britain Team released another consultation paper to further flesh out their thoughts on a Digital Rights Agency. Comments are requested by 30th March (Monday), so I only have this weekend to finish it off and get the comments sent in.

So, last week, an interim report on Digital Britain was released. I have read the report and I've just finished a letter to my MP on the subject and thought I'd share it with you for last minute comment before I send it. Some stuff is in line with The Open Rights Group initial response other bits are stuff I've added. Text is behind the cut...

Alex
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