lex naturalis - txwikinger's blog Free Software - Law - Politics

Copyright violations are in general always civil matters, i.e. the damaged parties must fight for their remedy themselves, the only penalty can be damages (even in some legislation these damages can be increased for intentional violations).

It had to come this way. The Labour government has pushed the anti-terrorism laws further and further and asked everybody to trust them. The Minister should make the decision if someone would be put under house arrest without even consulting a judge. Now they want to be able to detain someone for 3 month without a judge.