* Posts by Michael Brennen

6 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jun 2008

That global copyright crackdown: Three emails ... and carry on

Michael Brennen

Why make ISP's liable

Surely it should be that copyright infringement is treated the same a speeding in a car and not make ISP's liable as is the same where a person caught speeding is liable and not the makers of the car!

Boffins ponder Geordies' lack of winter clothing

Michael Brennen
Happy

must be social

Being from Durham not far from Geordie land I reckon its down to culture, you go out have a skin full and drink some more, go clubbing drink yet more so to save on forgetting your coat on leaving or having to pay for a cloakroom you get tanked up a fast as possible to get on the 'beer banket'.

Photography rights: Snappers to descend on Scotland Yard

Michael Brennen
Stop

Yet another Govenment pilice for Police to enact.

ON top of all the legislation and new laws introduced in Labour's tenure there is now another almost unenforcible piece of law that will please the anti terrorism spin doctors from the government and add more work for the police. I see police and pcos who have there photo taken all the time around London particularly on Westminster Bridge, are all the tourists going to be stopped from taking photos and arrested, I doubt it, when there is a crime scene are all the people who are clearly journalists going to be stopped and arrested, somehow I think the police resources would be busy dealing with the crime itself. I think that within reason the police would have questioned those they were suspicious of taking hostile photos of them under the TA2000 so its not necessary for the new piece of legislation

Child porn in the age of teenage 'sexting'

Michael Brennen
Happy

Sexting

Just make the possession of photographic equipment for under 18's illegal and the problem will disappear though its a draconian way of doing it.

Royal Navy won't fight pirates 'in case they claim asylum'

Michael Brennen
Paris Hilton

Human rights

Human rights always seem to get in the way of doing the job. Why not go back to the old days of hanging the pirates then they could not make it back to the UK to claim asylum or that their missus just dropped a sprog and they now need sky tv and a council flat plus UK citizenship for themselves and all there mates!

Paris Hilton because even she would understand the stupidity sometimes in the human rights bill protecting the criminals more than Joe Bloggs......

UK is not a surveillance society, MPs claim

Michael Brennen
Unhappy

Minimum time.......

Minimum time will likely be something like 10 years if its anything like the govs 'just in case' approach. CCTV is everywhere these days, the operators who are less than skilled and try and flag up things they see do help sometimes, but the use of it is reactive ie after you've been mugged or stabbed.... and not proactively as it should be.