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You're correct that the proposed bill advocates inquisition in all but name. Though I'm not a scholar on U.K. law or history, when you start with the U.K. brand of open 100% internet surveillance, this almost seems an inevitable consequence because when the government has the ability to know all, it necessarily becomes complicit, and naturally wants to defend itself.

In your comment you imply first the larger issue is generational knowledge and then you lean toward technological savvy. Neither alone is correct, and suggesting otherwise is delusion. This is about rights of content providers and consumers, which is boring, not about technology or youth, and in flux for the foreseeable future so there's no moral high ground. If this didn't target p2p it would be vhs or film--note that screeners often begin or at some point transfer to those technologies, and whatever generation in ascendancy is simply a bystander. Youth are increasingly empowered at younger ages, which means this generation will be behind the curve faster than they expect, and the next will be just as self-righteous. This generation has the power to affect change, but they seem too timid to exercise it.

Great post, though.

@RG
"the people who voted for such 'representatives' should look in the mirror first."
Well yes except that the idiot behind this (Lord Mandelson) wasn't elected, he's a peer. He came back from a vacation with some media moguls in Corfu in July and overturned the findings of a two year investigation by the government and a 200 page report and tabled this draconian legislation instead. Need I say more?