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Finally some discussion of the substance! Thanks to Stonetools for putting another view. And to DiapDealer and murraypaul for their posts about the Poll referred to. It reminds me of Sir Humphrey demonstrating to Bernard in an episode of Yes Prime Minister how such Polls in fact work. It ends with Sir Humphrey complementing Bernard on being "the perfect balanced sample" after he gave contradictory answers in quick succession to the same questions. And finally to Elfwreck for pointing out the flaws in the analogy with physical piracy and the Atlantic.
A point which I would like to make is that the law itself is brought into contempt by ridiculous and unworkable laws which are born of a lack of understanding by Politicians (or possibly cynical politicians wishing to appear to be doing something whilst knowing damn well it is fruitless). The technology at the moment is beyond the effective control of governments, and they hate it. Some of the legislation being proposed brings to mind Gandhi's salt march, or King Canute issuing commands to the tide. And the price for attempting such legislation is paid in loss of freedoms and privacy.
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