"Big bad Google" accused of shaping UK copyright policy

posted on 09/02/2012 18:16

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/big-bad-google-accused-of-shaping-uk-copyright-policy.ars

And yet, despite the claims that the government listens only to Google and hippies when it comes to copyright, the government remains keen on more copyright enforcement. As the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills put it a few minutes after the debate over Google, “We are closely considering whether to block access to websites that infringe copyright… An announcement is imminent, and I think that it will be welcomed.”