UK govt: IP address is “Intellectual Property address”
12 04 2010The UK has just passed a far-reaching “Digital Economy” bill that gets the judiciary into the website-blocking business and orders ISPs to pass on copyright notices from media companies. It also makes it easy to expand into throttling and Internet disconnections a year from now.
The moves are explicitly done to help the UK’s music and movie industries. This “help the rightsholders!” thinking has taken such hold in the government that an “IP address” can now be defined as an “Intellectual Property (IP) address” rather than an “Internet Protocol address” in official government correspondence—and no one bats an eye.
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