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Petition update, 06 June 2008

More details from petition creator

Recently there have been increasingly desperate attempts by the music industry to control how individuals consume media. Since these measures have in large parts failed (as a public relations disaster and an expensive, ultimately ineffective process), the industry is attempting to force ISP's to bear the blame for users actions and police information consuption. There is no practical way to detect the difference between legal and illegal material – particularly if the content is encrypted therefore this will effectively ban the use of some methods of transferring data. ISP’s should not be encouraged to invade a users privacy by analysing their data if they are not suspected of any crime, this sets an extremely dangerous precedent which very quickly leads to censorship of the internet. The government should not legislate on behalf of the music industry but should support open internet policed if necessary by public authorities using the usual mantra of innocent until proven guilty, requiring evidence and a court order before a users privacy may be invaded in this way.

Current signatories

David Ward, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Richard Stretton
• Ben Parish
• Nat Queen
• DH Harvey
• christophe watiez
• James Gregory
• Christopher Crouch
• Daniel Stevens
• Alistair Gunn
• A Stevens
• Michael Rutter
• Stephen Crocker
• Arron Cohen
• David Green
• Robert Myall
• Duncan Oag
• Nicholas Greenall
• David Wood
• Ed Bennett
• Jeremy Morton
• Andy Broomfield
• Richard Barlow
• Mark Gilbert
• Nicholas Peter Evans
• Robert Seddon
• David Bishop
• Matt Blissett
• Greg Tourte
• David Ieuan Jenkins
• Richard Ablitt
• Richard Clifford-Smith
• Stephen Dwyer
• Stephen Skidmore
• Joshua Coventry
• Michael Woolnough
• Andrew Godwin
• Samuel Taylor
• Alistair Stewart
• Robin Green
• Joseph Gray
• A Hepbun
• Armandas Jarusauskas
• James Legg
• Simon Wilmer
• Mark Hewett
• Mark Atherton
• Matthew Bramford
• pat stuart
• Darren Lindley
• Kristopher Johnstone
• Emlyn Corrin
• Adam Jimenez
• Chris Hemingway
• Richard McMillan
• Chris Howells
• Paul Shemmell
• Martin Piper
• Mark Winckle
• Chris Welch
• Luke Benstead
• A. Lampson
• Daniel Schuller
• Nigel Bullock
• A
• J. Rose
• Jeremy Slawson
• Paul Barker
• Ian Haycox
• Giacomo Lacava
• Joe Buckley
• Chris Mills
• Aidan Richmond
• Michael Skuse
• William Tovey
• Johan Ribenfors
• Mark Lockett
• Oliver Thornton
• Arron Fitzgerald
• David Goodwin
• Dick King
• S King
• Alan Briolat
• Martin Atkins
• Bruce Lewin
• Alex Fagan
• Gurkirat Vig
• R Fawkes
• Graham Marsden
• Sarah Addams
• Paul Tavener
• Stacey McKelvie
• Pete Snipe
• Karen Lennon
• Tim Brennan
• Robert Britt-Hazard
• Timothy Robin Barbour
• Jon Massey
• James Parkhurst
• Stephen Townsend
• Gavyn Long
• Ben Charlton
• Jason Winstanley
• Johan Edsler
• Chris Taylor
• Michael green
• Sasha Farrant
• William Burton
• James Burton
• Chris Young
• Ben Fox
• John Shingler
• Natalie Wood
• Graham Morris
• Ian Shaw
• Vivienne Johnston
• Sofija Petkovic
• Joseph Lynn
• Ross Anderson
• David Burton
• Matthew Papworth
• James Burton
• Joseph Howells
• Stuart Crouch
• Donna Burton
• richard button
• Jeff
• Toby John Pickett
• Sampath Albuquerque
• Israrul Haque
• Brian Thomas Lane
• Sheila Nancy Lane
• Geoffrey Clare
• Michael Trim
• R McCarthy
• Alexandros Davies
• Emma French
• Ben Johnson
• Alicia Wells
• Adil Rahman
• Alex Hardman
• Sukhpal Parwana
• Franziska Rundstadler
• Kyle Williams
• Garth Williams
• Daniel Boothby
• Richard Hanton
• Mucaad Mohamed
• Robert James Gordon-Rawlings
• Umapathy Subburam
• Carol Domingo
• D. M. Worby
• Sean Archibald
• Michael Black
• Luke Stanley
• Aaron Coates
• Pamela Hones
• David Taylor
• James Thompson
• John Robert Atkinson
• Yaman Akdeniz
• shaun hollingworth
• Paul Cleaton
• N Wynne
• Jon S. Stock
• Dug Stokes
• Kent Boogaart
• Matt Quelch
• Kevin Bennett
• Russell Odom
• Brian Clegg
• russell williams
• Dr Alan Harrison
• Julia Haberberg
• Daniel Bond
• Heather Farmer
• Alexander Dunning
• tony atkins
• s d worthington
• Aaron Fowler
• JAMIE
• Belinda Boogaart
• earthshayker
• forumpromotion.net <- Yum
• Carl Kershaw @ Police State
• mr Perry Ravenscroft
• Edward Saxton
• David Moss
• Andrew Johnston
• Anand Bhana
• Jonny Prince
• Nigel Sharp
• David Tong
• Sam Sanad
• steve ramsey
• Peter Shillito
• Paul Panter
• Mark Boardman
• Devlin G R Wright
• Andrew Ihegbu
• Jake London
• Eddie Gadsden
• Robert Christie
• Derek Scott
• Matt McLoughlin
• Steven Yates
• Chris Mundy
• Graham MacDonald
• Paul Hedderly
• Ian Rudge
• Daniel Gaunt
• K D JAGGER
• Scott Whyte
• David Ramos
• zahid butt
• Jamie McCrae
• Nathan Greenhouse
• Ben Ballard
• kate_haddley
• Michael Dean
• chris anson
• Roger Lipscombe
• Luke Hudson
• Daniel Olive
• Christopher Hill
• Stewart Bryant
• Mike Chivers
• Ognen B
• Albert Hurwood, NATIONAL VIGILANTE ORGANISATION
• Paul Huggins
• scott fleming
• Daniel Greenwood
• Kay Thomas
• Ben Pass
• nicholas williams
• R Bell
• Matthew Sawyer
• Clifford Collins
• Alex Smart
• Edward Clarke
• Ian Johnson
• Kevin Clayton
• Paul J. Roberts
• PETER HOWARD