New Clause 1 — Deterrence of Piracy, Counterfeiting Etc.

Part of Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 1:00 pm on 4 March 2003.

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Photo of Pete Wishart Pete Wishart Opposition Whip (Commons), Shadow Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport), Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), Shadow Spokesperson (Transport) 1:00, 4 March 2003

Before the right hon. Gentleman moves on from this point, I want to congratulate him on trying to find a technological solution to the problems of counterfeiting and piracy. I suggest to him that that is a long way from coming, and we will need to go a big distance before it is achieved. Does he have any comments about the general cultural environment in which many young people do not regard this activity as a crime and are happy to be involved in it? Does he think that we must tackle that type of culture, too?

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Adrian Hon
Posted on 7 Jun 2004 11:41 pm (Report this annotation)

A good point by Mr. Wishart. Mr. Smith may talk about technological solutions such as 'digital signatures, watermarks, tracing the digital origin of material' to combat copyright infringement, but none of them have worked. Technological solutions are unlikely to succeed.