[pp.int.general] Rick is in your Jailz, stealing your MP4s

[Andrew Norton]

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Something I had to share, but did you know that Rick's currently in
jail, and we're at the brink of Armageddon? No, neither did I until I
watched today's (well, yesterday now I guess) 2nd reading of the Digital
Economy Bill. Just shows you how wrong they can be in their research.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/14.htm iss
the source, it might also be on the video at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8597000/8597125.stm

Michael Connarty: I am grateful to another vice-chairman of the
Performers Alliance group in this House for giving way. Is it not a myth
that co-operation, as we have heard, could somehow solve this? People
are not talking about co-operating and sharing their own thoughts and
content, but are stealing someone else?s content and sharing that. There
is an Armageddon, which has partially arrived in Sweden, where the
Pirate party, whose leader is in jail, won seats in the European
Parliament on the basis that everybody?s work?including MP4?s?should be
free.


Rick did manage to tweet to freedom a moment or two afterwards though
(https://twitter.com/Falkvinge/status/11711960876)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Connarty

Just thought it might amuse some of you. Might even be a running joke we
can use.


Andrew
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