[x-pubpol] Freedom of Information requests show that UK copyright consultation was a stitch-up; Internet disconnection rules are a foregone conclusion

[Joly MacFie]

and again

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/01/freedom-of-information-requests-show-that-uk-copyright-consultation-was-a-stitch-up-internet-disconnection-rules-are-a-foregone-conclusion.html

Documents released in response Freedom of Information requests show that
> Mandelson had already made up his mind from the start about the Act’s most
> controversial section: the rules that said that users would have their
> Internet connections terminated if enough unsubstantiated infringement
> claims were made against their households. The “compromise” that the Act
> made was to suspend this measure initially, and bring it into force if the
> other measures in the Act failed to substantially reduce infringement.
> Critics called it the sham it was, saying that a 70 percent reduction in
> file-sharing was a delusional target, and the FOI documents show that the
> Act’s supporters agreed — they only intended the compromise as a means of
> smuggling in France-style disconnections.


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