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[LUG] My letter to my MP / ISP ban to The Pirate Bay

 

FOR THE ATTENTION OF:

Sarah Wollaston MP
Totnes

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Mark Cross
Totnes

RE: Proposed request to ask UK Internet Service Providers to ban
access to web sites that facilitate copying of copyrighted material

Dear Sarah,

Please could you explain the UK government's change in position since
the 1980's on the subject above?

At the time many tape to tape recording devices were explicitly
manufactured for the purposes of copying audio cassettes. These
consumer priced items, known at the time as "ghetto blasters" were
legally sold on the High Street, by chains of the time, such as Dixons
and Currys.

No such ban was put in the place to block the retail sale of these
devices, please could ask the minister concerned as to what has
changed since that time requiring a change in the law?

I remember that tape copying was like a rash at school, but somehow, I
have accumlated probably 1000 CDs and my cassettes have all been
thrown away. Likewise my peers all seem to have vast legally purchased
CD collections.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Cross MBCS CITP

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