RIPA and file-sharing??

[PeteM]

Clive D. W. Feather wrote  on 4-02-08 09:02:
> 
> So there are three choices:
> (1) I can refuse to hand over any data at all, frustrating the police in 
> the investigation of serious crimes.
> (2) I can demand to see all the information the police have so that I 
> can judge for myself in each case whether or not they need the requested 
> data, or whether they have other potential lines of enquiry so that they 
> can do without the data.
> (3) We can find some other way to make my disclosure to them legal.
> The first two are unacceptable to me, so that leaves the third. And that 
> is what Part 1 Chapter 2 was about.
> 
> If there was a fourth option, what was it?
> 

(4) Your disclosure to them shall be illegal and we shall *not* find 
some other way to make the disclosure legal, except by the established 
mechanism of a court order granted only after independent scrutiny.

It shows how far we have come that even you - undoubtedly one of the 
good guys - didn't include this on your list of options.

-- 
Pete Mitchell