by Duke

Open Rights Group – founded in 2005 by 1,000 digital activists – is “the UK’s leading voice defending freedom of expression, privacy, innovation, consumer rights and creativity on the internet.” Fitting that they should be the ones to organize a nationwide protest against the “3 Strikes Law” touted by Lord Peter Mandelson.

It’s a nationwide protest that’s set to go global, given the fact that the same rule is being adopted in other countries (like France and the USA).

I don’t know if you have to be a resident of the UK to add your voice and face to the protest, but if you want ideas for your own national protest, go see ORG’s 3 Strikes page.

For more on this story: Brits: Send a Message to Mandelson
and European Internet Sinking Fast Under 3-Strikes Proposal

P.S. For an uncharacteristically fair-to-both-sides type of description of copyright infringement, check out this Wikipedia definition of copyright infringement.

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