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fcukers.

"The...clause allows the secretary of state for business to order the blocking of "a location on the internet which the court is satisfied has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with an activity that infringes copyright".

So that's this site banjaxed, then.

[EDIT] Also every social networking site - they are likely to be used for friends to communicate.
[In the not too distant future. Location: someone's Wall on Facebook]
"What are you doing?"
"Listening to this great new album from the Moomin Mothers - hot techno outfit from Helsinki."
"Can you do me a copy?"
"Sure."
BZZZZZZZZZZZT! "[crackle]This is the Cyber Police. Put down your MP3s and come out with your hands up. This site is being closed down for copyright infringement."

it's a continuation of a losing battle - terrorists and guerrillas will allas have an upper hand, look at Viet Nam, Norn Erlan and now the east - pick your place

Unenforcable, surely?

The internet has been protected for your sanity would have been more practical.

What a bunch of tools.

The "likely to be used" bit is genuinely scary. Surely someone with even an ounce of cop-on should realise that opens the door for any kind of nut job to wreak havoc.

I suppose that it gives you something else to give your MPs a bollocking over on the doorstep over the coming weeks.

It's a bit like putting "etc." in a contract.

timsinister wrote:Unenforcable, surely?

Not when you have a judiciary that's all too willing to countenance simulated drowning so you can find out what someone had for his tea.

And it feels like me today
Tell me, Do you feel the same?
Or do you feel like nineteen eighty-four?

f**k em!

Thank you Rob, you put it neatly.