Thanks for posting the link.

The recommendations of the APIG are very good. But will the government act accordingly?

In Germany the IFPI got (almost) all it wished for regarding DRM.

And while the BPI seems to grant people the right to make copies of their cds for their iPods, here the national branch of the IFPI wants to close even the so called

One of the things I've noticed over the past five years is... you can suffocate truth and common sense and justice with a wealth of trivia and detail.
The language of the law is the language of a murderer.
Trying to extract the reality from underneath the pile of excrement is impossible and if you do succeed, it will be dead on emergence.

The UK is a strange case with IP. We're not like the USA (compulsory licenses, massive waiver on PRO licenses for 'small businesses', etc.), we're not like Canada or the rest of the EU (media and player levies, personal copying) and we're not like the ROW.

Things like APIG tend to get buried as JK says, or implemented in part... the vested interests DO get a disproprtionate say through more informal channels. We seem to muddle along...

I gave up trying to make sense of IP law long ago (the recent French IP saga is a whole PhD on its own). But I do think music is so easy and so widespread there's a huge danger (for the industry and their assets) that they move too slowly.

DRM is still about putting a padlock on video and audio... while the kids are phoning pictures and sounds to each other, uploading willy nilly and recording and remixing at home.

It reminds me of pro musician hold-outs on radio in the early 20th C. Radio just went and got its music elsewhere... and it was actually a breath of fresh air.

Sometimes if you hold on too tight you can squeeze the life out of something.