Division within ranks on UK termination: Party insiders say Minister “just doesn’t get the internet”
BBC reports that “‘Peter just doesn’t get the internet’ That was the instant reaction of one person I spoke to this morning about the government’s new measures against illegal file-sharing – and Lord Mandelson’s part in them. And this was not someone from digital campaigners the Open Rights Group or from an internet service provider, but a political insider from the same party as the business secretary. An executive from a major software business, who did not want to be named, rang me within hours of the announcement to express astonishment.”What are they doing?” he asked. “It just won’t work – when so many people have unsecured wireless networks, how are you going to pinpoint who the file-sharer is?”
