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Old 04-12-2010, 12:09 PM   #17
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How could this happen in the UK?
I don't know if you saw it or not, but there was a Despatches programme showing politicians taking bribes in order to have laws changed, or clauses added to them. The BPI actually wrote one of the clauses in this new law, the one about blocking access to sites that might have copyright infringing content.

This site itself contains ebooks that are subject to copyright in the UK, so theoretically it could be one of the sites that are blocked.
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