UK MP: Web control bill a sledgehammer to crack small nut

British Labour MP Austin Mitchell in Westminster speaks out on the Digital Economy Bill, which could give authorities the power to block pirate websites and cut people off from the Internet for file sharing.

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[graphattic]

Piracy should not be handled perios. The RnB music sluts, and the Bill Gates Microsoft bastards, and fucking Hollywood have more money than its needed for Eternity. Fuck them. Who wants to pay them, can do it, the rest should pirate the bastards. Fuck the Rich. I mean Bill gates is already the Richest scum on Earth, its not like if piracy stopped he would pay his emplyees more, so fuck this nonsense shit. People are idiotic about it. Such laws wont protect poor rights owners anyway.

[majikninja07]

vote everyone that votes for it out !

[finsher2008]

Oh oh i just accidentally downloaded windows 7 which comes with a crack oops and ironman 2 oh shit i did it again curse my fingers

[muskndusk]

I live in a student area where there are a few open wi fi networks. If I wanted, I could tap into these to download torrents. One way to get my revenge upon the students! Seriously, I think this is an unworkable bill and will go the way of the Poll Tax.

[doNOTvoteCAMPAIGN]

Thanks for this important video. Very significant this.. please take in how vital. Something is happening here and it's being hushed up. Germany...1930s... and so on. Do not vote. Visit my channel to find out why you betray your country if you don't make a stand once and for all against those who would pull the wool over your eyes with the 'left right' blood sport. Love and peace. Smith.

[123456duggie]

They wont stop it ffs look at the missuse of drugs act they failed labour are a fucking fail fuck labour fuck this bill

[TheTempestSpark]

Where was the video recorder tax lol the internet has actually got rid of piracy because more people are sharing now rather than buying cheep knock off dvds or cds. Who cares if people are sharing and even if their not they'll all get taxed as if they are. the way I see it is that the more I'm taxed the bigger the group that taxes me gets! then they need more taxes to support their taxing habit & bail out banks.

[confusion180]

Thanks too Peter Mandelson for this stupid bill. Its going to cost £300 million.Who is going to pay for it I Wonder??. Yes ever one who pays for the internet. I think the prices are going to go up now. Its all so going to cost people more to upgrade their networks security to avoid prosecution. More hackers will find new ways to hack into your computer getting you banned or fined. Who is going to bother using the internet when its too much hassle and costing too much???

[djdnauk1977]

@majikninja07 thats pretty much only pirate and green parties i think?

[satansdaughters]

I have grown to hate this world we call democracy I feel my vote this comming election is meaningless. My biggest concern is not in particular the copy right laws but more so the other part of the bill where it states " if there is intentions" and so forth this means any web sites such as wiki leaks and there is a lot of such websites they will be blocked. This means to me I will no longer be albe to source information from around the world and come to my own conclusion on future events

[safcman4]

Hate this goverment! So damn much! Vote BNP!