Lord Lucas Says Record Companies "Blackmail" Users

Kijori writes "Lord Lucas, a member of the UK House of Lords, has accused record companies of blackmailing internet users by accusing people of copyright infringement who have no way to defend themselves. 'You can get away with asking for £500 or £1,000 and be paid on most occasions without any effort having to be made to really establish guilt. It is straightforward legal blackmail.' The issue is that there is no way for people to prove their innocence, since the record company's data is held to be conclusive proof, and home networking equipment does not log who is downloading what. Hopefully, at the very least, the fact that parliament has realised this fact will mean that copyright laws will get a little more sane."

To which Lord Vader of the RIAA replied,

[sqrt(2)]

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Grrr....mind trick

[whovian]

This wasn't the Lucas I was looking for.

It is spreading....

[Asadullah Ahmad]

The sanity is finally spreading, which started from Australia. A few more of similar statements from Government officials, or even some cases appearing in media where customers were blackmailed like this, and users might not be bullied any more just because they use Internet.

Re:To which Lord Vader of the RIAA replied,

[Soldats]

Oh good so I'm not the only one who thought George Lucas when I read that headline.
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Re:Lord Lucas

[MichaelSmith]

Thats not the lord you are looking for.

Re:To which Lord Vader of the RIAA replied,

[L4t3r4lu5]

Sorry, we already have Sith Lord in parliament [politics.co.uk]

Re:To which Lord Vader of the RIAA replied,

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you mean Jeff Vader?

Re:sane copyright laws?

[theheadlessrabbit]

If you follow my sig, it would be something like this:

RANDOMIZE TIMER
copyrightsanity% = INT(RND * 255) + 1
IF copyrightsanity% = 0 THEN copyrightissane = 1: ELSE wereallfucked$ = "very yes"

Re:Finally, someone gets it.

[dryeo]

Of course the article is about the UK where the King James version of the bible is still under copyright.