[pp.int.general] Mandelson wants crackdown on filesharing

[Brian McNeil]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:17 +0000, W Tovey wrote:
> If anyone wants more details, there is an official statement from the
> Department of Business, Innovation and Skills here:
> http://nds.coi.gov.uk/clientmicrosite/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=408001&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=431 and a transcript of Mandelson's speech to the C&BINet forum here: http://www.cabinetforum.org/blog/lord_mandelson_speech_transcript_on_p2p_copyright_and_creative_industries/ .
> 
> Apparently this was at a government-sponsored forum to debate
> copyright issues; the key note speech was given by the CEO of Vivendi
> and looking through the guest speakers list, I'm not sure how they
> hoped to have any sort of fair "debate" on copyright. 
> 
> PPUK are working on some form of official response at the moment.

Check the Wikimedia UK mailing list; someone from there was in
attendance and posted some notes.


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