Re: [Fsfe-uk] Young Greens moving on FS

[Ian Lynch]

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? 

-- 
Ian Lynch <address@hidden>
ZMS Ltd