RIPA and file-sharing??

[David Hansen]

On 4 Feb 2008 at 9:17, PeteM wrote:

> (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.

Agreed.

The courts are far from perfect, some cretin in the courts allowed the 
police to try their macho raid at Forest Gate, but at least us plebs 
have some inkling of the system and there is a degree of openness and 
an ability to undertake some change.

After the smug arrogant utterances of the police after Forest Gate I 
was fascinated to hear on a Radio 4 programme in ISTR December that 
those involved have started to question whether a such macho raids are 
appropriate. Of course it would be far more reassuring if those 
involved had enough brain cells to think of such things before, rather 
than after.

The same lack of brain cells has been apparent in many other police 
actions, whether famous or not.



 


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54