10 thoughts on “Sean Sherlock’s Statutory Instrument (Text)”

  1. Just another Law Society cake orgy..

    Feckers.

    This country is so ‘Father-Ted-ish’, it’s unreal.

    Careful now, don’t do that. We’ll lock you up. Fines, fines, fines. Miami.

    • As a possible reaction to this at some point in the future.. just watch, once ‘encryption’ trickles down to the ‘everyday user’ of the web, that’ll be given a swift kick in the balls. Illegal to encrypt. A crime to encrypt any traffic.

      The price of media, digital or otherwise, will never go down. Notice how digital audio, the prices, if anything, are creeping up. How the feck did we come to a point where an .mp3 on Universal’s 7digital site, costs, for basic chart material, €1.99.

      No physical media, ‘lossy’ audio (not CD quality), can be copied forever by the studio at minimal cost.. €1.99. Someone’s laughing.

  2. From the programme for government (talking about EU legislation, but still…) page 25. Some commitment to checks and balances of parliament huh.

    “Transposing EU Legislative Measures
    The situation can no longer be tolerated where Irish Ministers enact EU legislation by statutory
    instrument. The checks and balances of parliamentary democracy are by-passed. The parliamentary treatment accorded home-produced draft legislation must be extended to draft legislation initiated within the EU institutions.

    The Regulatory Impact Assessments prepared for Ministers on all EU Directives and significant Regulations will be forwarded automatically to the relevant sectoral Oireachtas Committees. These Committees should advise the Minister and the Joint Committee on European Affairs as to whether the transposition should take place by Statutory Instrument or by primary legislation. Where primary legislation is recommended the full Oireachtas plenary process should be followed.”

  3. Oh god, too much to read.
    X-Factor is easier.
    Watch X-Factor.
    Ask no questions.
    Work for low pay for supermarkets.
    Then buy my groceries from them.
    Bahhhhh.

  4. If I buy a book, read the book and then pass it to my mate who reads the book am I not an intermediary allowing someone to bypass payment to the copyright holder of an intellectual property? What if it’s a DVD instead of a book?

  6. A UK judge has ruled that a photograph inspired by another photograph, but clearly different from it, infringes the original photo’s copyright.
    Maybe it’s like Jockstrap said.
    Go and get a job in Tesco for the rest of my life and help pay back the debts of a group of people I have nothing to do with.
    Maybe my generation is happy with xfactor and serfdom.

  7. That UK judge just enacted the first step in copyrighting an idea.
    Them Law Lords need to step on that shit sharpish.