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Originally Posted by oblonsky
A case in point is the issue of copyright infringement, as Struan Robertson wrote about in out-law.com:
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I'm not such a fan of that article because I felt the author was creating an analogy between the Google situation w.r.t. copyright and Phorm situation under RIPA.
Not taking anything away from your most recent post, to my mind the two are very separate and diverse issues, copyright having a history of hundreds, if not thousands of years whilst intercept and privacy & communications concepts being relatively modern. The latter being defined if you like because of the internet era and the former being a concept struggling to catch up in the digital era.
But granted both concepts are undergoing rapid redefinition as communications and digital media technology exploded in the last 20 years. And I have to agree with the sentiment of what you say because I feel privacy in communications is actually the most important issue at stake here and I would be happy for the depate with MPs and public bodies to focus on these issues alone. Not least because I don't see how the copyright model will survive in its present form without draconian measures that I don't want to see implemented (Eircom v IRMA).