I watched an interesting documentary the other day which dealt with among other things, the history of intellectual property. ‘Steal This Film’ it was called, and by coincidence it was mentioned on the Today programme on Radio 4 the other morning, when they had an item about torrents and new media distribution models.

This particular proposal is a Green Paper and I can’t see it even getting to White, nevermind framed in a statute. Would it even be effective by the time it does? In my mind its not an immediate priority; cracking down on terrorist chat-rooms and nonse websites should be at the forefront of legislators minds. This is a total non-story. Slow news days methinks.