Comments on: Social media insights from #DEBill

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By: The #debill ‘could’ threaten 3G internet for iPhones - Programming Blog

The #debill ‘could’ threaten 3G internet for iPhones - Programming Blog — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:25:52 +0000

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By: Ray_at_Fatsoma

Ray_at_Fatsoma — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:50:09 +0000

The DEB is ridiculously flawed. The negative repercussions on our society and economy as a whole hugely outweigh any potential gains from combating piracy in this way. It's an insult to democracy by being so blatantly written and pushed through by lobbyists from the BPI and other “music industry” figures. It ignored the British judiciary system by assuming guilt in the absence of proof (IP addresses cannot prove guilt in a court of law). It jeopardises our young digital economy, by eroding the chances of gaining truly wireless cities, and removes any incentive to provide free wi-fi areas.

What's more, it is unlikely to have any effect on file-sharing, as is evident when you look at Sweden as a case study, where file-sharing has risen since their anti-piracy laws, just now it is encrypted. Instead the record companies who wrote this Act should be focusing on live music promotion as their primary revenue stream rather than protecting an old, out-dated business model.

For my blog on the implications of the DEB please go to http://bit.ly/a5rnUk. Cheers.

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By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:51:51 +0000

I think you're forgetting that the campaign not only failed, but the legislation turned out to be much worse than we expected. Web blocking measures were not in the original draft in November.

More MPs were expected to make a stand about the lack of Commons and felt insulted by this, but they dismissed the emails and Tweets as "the green ink brigade".

Group amplification has always been the strength of social media, but it is also its achilles heel. The only success #debill was Stop43 - did they rely on social media? No.

Learn the lessons - or keep repeating the mistakes.

By: simoncollister

simoncollister — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:41:17 +0000

@Ray and @Anne Of course, you're both right that the content industries need to adapt their business models rather than think that criminalising their customers is the solution. Of course. It's a totally instance concept revealing how out of touch with reality the content industries are. More pertinently, the laws are only likely to protect industry execs and big earning artists. For most musicians, etc the Interent is a valuable marketing, comms, sales tool. So its a double threat to the industry: their existing revenue stream is dwindling and competition from unsigned artists is increasing.

Sadly, what little faith I had in the democratic process has long since evaporated. The country is largely managed by corporate and vested personal/state interests

@suyogmody I think this is partly a symptom of the current (corrupt) parliament. Twice as many MPs are standing down at this election and a lot of the new intake will be more digitally savvy – hopefully!

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:28:58 +0000

Brilliant summary Simon, thanks. This debacle for me is ultimately about to an abject lack of ability to come up with the kind of business models that can serve and benefit from the new mechanics on the digital economy. Instead, politicians and 1.0 businesses have reacted simply by resorting to suppression by constituting an act of protectionism of the worst order.

The lack of knowledge on the subject demonstrated in the House, from Stephen Timms ignorance about what IP stands for on down, would be funny if the consequences weren't quite so serious and the China comparison is not far off the mark; for that alone, as the once supposed seat of free speech and democracy, this country should be ashamed.

I hope the MP's who were bussed in at the last minute by Whips to vote against the bill take a look and begin to grasp what they have enacted against the name of democracy and how much they have damaged the potential of the UK as a progressive, creative economy, in the name of people who actually are. You've mentioned some of brilliance of what we have to offer in the creative and technical initiatives that have sprung up over the last few days, and for that we should be proud. We stand to gain far more by capitalizing on our collective intelligence for the benefit of many, than by firewalling and banning it for the profit of a few. A look at the business model thinking is where we need to focus to help haul 20th century businesses into the digital age.

By: suyogmody

suyogmody — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:40:13 +0000

This is, indeed, very sad. It shows that, while digital and social media movements are being noticed, they don't come nearly as close to the power that's wielded by old media and “closed-door” meetings of people in power.