{"id":102,"date":"2010-03-17T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-03-17T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:57:24","slug":"dont-rush-the-digital-economy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/dont-rush-the-digital-economy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t rush the Digital Economy Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?p=11473\">David Howarth<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very concerned about the attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.38degrees.org.uk\/page\/speakout\/extremeinternetl\">rush the passage<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2009-10\/digitaleconomy.html\">Digital Economy Bill<\/a> through the Commons.<\/p>\n<p>I run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openrightsgroup.org\/blog\/2010\/the-death-of-open-wifi\">public wifi network<\/a> for our crescent of shared houses. It&#8217;s my contribution from my own time and technical expertise.<\/p>\n<p>In a time when thrift is essential, it saves us all money.<\/p>\n<p>I also run a business providing software services both locally and internationally. I carry out much of my work over my internet connection at home.<\/p>\n<p>But should even an accusation be raised that my network is being misused, the Digital Economy Bill means I risk disconnection and places upon me the considerable monetary cost of defending such accusations in court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cyberlaw.org.uk\/2009\/01\/31\/anti-piracy-measures-don%E2%80%99t-work-report-shows\/\">Filtering is not feasible<\/a> in any meaningful sense. It&#8217;s impossible for me to distinguish between legal and illegal file-sharing traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Economy Bill puts at risk the good I do for my community as well as my livelihood and deserves proper scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>As a constituent, I implore you to do all you can to ensure the Government does not rush the bill through, denying us our democratic right to scrutiny and debate.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<br \/>\n  Mark Ferry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear David Howarth, I&#8217;m very concerned about the attempt to rush the passage of the Digital Economy Bill through the Commons. I run a public wifi network for our crescent of shared houses. It&#8217;s my contribution from my own time and technical expertise. In a time when thrift is essential, it saves us all money. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[74,71,73,72,75,40],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-digital-economy-bill","tag-law","tag-letter","tag-minister","tag-open-wifi","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markferry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}