Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Yet More Town Hall Taliban

Government gets tough on Software Compliance


Trading standards officers will soon have powers to check companies’ software licences without warning.

The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) has welcomed an announcement by trade and industry minister Malcolm Wicks that from 6 April new powers under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act will now be at the disposal of Trading Standards.

Should this be funded by the likes of Bill Gates and Adobe?

Why should we be paying for these already mega rich companies to get even richer?

Yet another Law and even more intrusion.