Criminal Justice and Police bill

[Brewis, Mark]

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Perry [mailto:roland@linx.net]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:56 PM
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: Re: Criminal Jusctice and Police bill

>>We all know that electronic pictures count just as much as 7 by 8 glossy
>>prints, the only question is whether the data bitstream counts, until
RIPA,
>>I'd have said not, but you never know how these things will be
interpretted
>>in the future.

>Huh? They've been counted as pictures under UK law for years.

Yes, once downloaded.  The original idea thread was whether or not this has
been expanded to incorporate ISP's handling the datastream.  I know this is
an old discussion - content responsibility - but it appears to be
resurfacing in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill.

The analogies still apply - does FedEx get canned for delivering your brown
wrappered parcel from Holland?  Are they the importer or the vector?
Without research I can't cite a precedent on this, but the answer must be
that they are only the vector.  How an ISP stands in the current climate I
don't know, but would hazard a guess that Donald is right and that the
position is less favorable now than it was a year ago.

Mark Brewis 
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