The Newspaper Shop -- Monday edition

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Originally posted by TankGirl

"Unless we get control of digital privacy, we will be in deep trouble." Now there's an interesting and paradoxical concept... if EMI controls your privacy it isn't much of a privacy anymore, is it?

Its at times like that you wonder if someone's escaped from Bush's script-writing team

Especially as thousands of similar corporations can claim the right to control your digital privacy on similar grounds. How about giving the entertainment industry the right to check your snailmail, just in case you are sending some mp3s to your friends?

Better add stop-and-searches, just in case you deliver in person (which is, after all, far more likely).

Interesting times, though. A lot of stuff got sneaked through using the terrorism premise - it'll be much simpler to spread now its past that first checkpoint.