Page 5 of the Interface section of today's London Times says that the
UK government is considering a European Community proposal to make
the use of web caches unlawful in response to pressure from the music
industry (presumably over MPEG 3 piracy). The article is generally
scathing of the proposal, but doesn't really explain the benefits of
caches well, nor point out that there are already ways for caching to
be defeated, and therefore an implied consent (of course our problem
tends to be that cacheing is defeated too often resulting in measures
to defeat cache defeating!). It doesn't point out that cache
software is one of the best places to block pirate sites.
The article is possibly on http://www.the-times.co.uk/, but they
require demographics before they will let you enter, and their terms
and conditions don't permit links to internal pages, so it wasn't
worth searching for such an article.
-- David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>Received on Wed Mar 10 1999 - 06:50:55 MST
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