Good news for P2P file sharers?

“Don’t worry Ben Bradshaw (right) replaced him earlier today,” says a p2pnet Reader’s Write to our story which kicks off: “British culture secretary Andy ‘Android’ Burnham says the UK won’t follow France where, if president Nicolas Sakrozy has his way, Net access will be cut off for people said by the entertainment cartels to be ‘illegal’ file sharers. “Instead, ‘technical restrictions’ such as bandwidth throttling, popular with major Canadian ISPs, could be imposed.” It’s all part of the entertainment cartel master plan to use readily corruptible governments around the world to bypass any form of competition to gain total and exclusive control of the Net as the 21st century sales, marketing, PR and distribution vehicle. So far, although politicians are falling over themselves to co-operate, the cartels haven’t yet managed to have their legislation actually put in place.

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Good news for P2P file sharers?

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