TechWire: Don’t do it, Enda and Eamon : Adrian Weckler with a plea for the incoming govt regarding the attempt to rush through ‘3 Strikes’ by the outgoing one: ‘Such a law will have absolutely no effect on the practice of illegal filesharing. None. Zero. It hasn’t worked in France. It hasn’t worked in Britain. And it certainly won’t work in Ireland. On the other hand, it may well send a signal to huge, jobs-creating digital IT companies that Ireland is a place that tries to legislate away personal digital freedoms.’
(tags: 3-strikes ireland adrian-weckler politics filesharing piracy filtering internet freedom)Notch on piracy: “if a pirated game is a lost sale, should bad reviews be illegal?” | PC Gamer : wish more “piracy = theft” people would think about this viewpoint. mind you, fwiw, I buy my games, and have paid for Minecraft ;)
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