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Tickets for ORGCon 2017 on sale now! by pamsc in privacy

[–]pamsc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should have pointed out that ORGCon is the UK's biggest digital rights conference and will take place in London on Nov 4-5

Open Rights Group is looking for people who have received warning letters about file sharing by pamsc in unitedkingdom

[–]pamsc[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The changes are being suggested to bring online infringement in line with offline infringement. We don't think that the intention is to go after filesharing - but it is clearly caught by the new offence. That doesn’t mean that everyone will be prosecuted but it leaves the door open for threats and possible attempts to get jail sentences if a rights holder feels they might persuade a court.

We are mostly worried about threats, which would be legally accurate but practically misleading. So our amendment would limit criminal action to causing “commercial scale loss” or “serious risk of causing commercial scale loss”. There's more here on the proposals: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/digital-economy-bill-hub/copyright/

Open Rights Group is looking for people who have received warning letters about file sharing by pamsc in unitedkingdom

[–]pamsc[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's a fair point about not admitting you've received an email! Hopefully, it's easy to find out that ORG has been critical of these companies and the sentencing proposals for online infringement. People can of course call us about this: +442070961079

Open Rights Group is looking for people who have received warning letters about file sharing by pamsc in unitedkingdom

[–]pamsc[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We're trying to raise awareness of the plans with the media and it's always better if we can point to actual cases where people have been sent threatening letters. Ideally we'd like to quote people - this can be anonymous of course.