On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 05:14, Mark Preston wrote:
I never wrote that there should be no monitoring. This is not my view.
Like you, I would also want there to be some mechanisms in place to
allow for some EC monitoring. Rather like those that currently enable
Police and Security Services to intercept mail and tap phone lines when
they have "reasonable" grounds. This is completely different to what
would be required to enforce copyright compliance, or at least it should
be.
I agree that "reasonable" is open to wide interpretation. In the context
of Martin Wheeler's statement: "The blatant abuse and corruption of
copyright law for the purposes of protecting corporate greed and
maintaining a specific model of consumerism is a very different affair."
"reasonable" was intended to mean less restrictive than those laws
currently in place, let alone the more draconian laws being advocated by
the 'pigopolists'.
So we agree that there is a balance and that at the moment its moving
too far in favour of large corporate interests and away from the
interests of ordinary people?