Comments on: Digital Rights in the UK: Your Rights, Your Issues http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/12/02/digital-rights-in-the-uk-your-rights-your-issues/ Protecting your rights in the digital age Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: "The media" http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/12/02/digital-rights-in-the-uk-your-rights-your-issues/#comment-199 "The media" Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:20:46 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/?p=39#comment-199 Hmmm, interesting discussion here, but do you really think when we (hacks) get sent releases we don't check out the websites of the organisation? This site is really pretty wobbly and has no real meat whatsoever. I think you need to brush up your appearance and organisation before you start asking for thousands of pounds and expecting to get anything other than footnotes in supplements to national press. Good luck though, I think these are important issues ... A Journo. Hmmm, interesting discussion here, but do you really think when we (hacks) get sent releases we don’t check out the websites of the organisation? This site is really pretty wobbly and has no real meat whatsoever. I think you need to brush up your appearance and organisation before you start asking for thousands of pounds and expecting to get anything other than footnotes in supplements to national press.

Good luck though, I think these are important issues …

A Journo.

]]> By: Robert Dennis http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/12/02/digital-rights-in-the-uk-your-rights-your-issues/#comment-190 Robert Dennis Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:33:16 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/?p=39#comment-190 Martin, in a couple of years you'll get to college, do the whole Footlights thing, and maybe learn something about satire. Until then, you should know that mocking people's names isn't funny, unless you're actually good at being funny. I read on a blog somewhere that skinnedcream are the Turner Prize winners of leftism. I honestly don't think you're even that - you are so appallingly schoolboy that I can't think why anyone (me included) has bothered to engage with you. In fact, I'm just going to stop now. Hope to catch up with you again when you grow up, or else not at all. Martin, in a couple of years you’ll get to college, do the whole Footlights thing, and maybe learn something about satire. Until then, you should know that mocking people’s names isn’t funny, unless you’re actually good at being funny. I read on a blog somewhere that skinnedcream are the Turner Prize winners of leftism. I honestly don’t think you’re even that - you are so appallingly schoolboy that I can’t think why anyone (me included) has bothered to engage with you. In fact, I’m just going to stop now. Hope to catch up with you again when you grow up, or else not at all.

]]> By: J http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/12/02/digital-rights-in-the-uk-your-rights-your-issues/#comment-183 J Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:21:29 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/?p=39#comment-183 I don't think there's a problem with the future of ORG. If it does nothing more than meet 6 times a year, press releases (or release presses?), and provide somewhere for confused journos/politicos/lawyers to turn for a readable summary of complex technical issues, then it will be doing very well indeed. In this mode, it would not as Suw says, ever complete its remit. I don’t think there’s a problem with the future of ORG. If it does nothing more than meet 6 times a year, press releases (or release presses?), and provide somewhere for confused journos/politicos/lawyers to turn for a readable summary of complex technical issues, then it will be doing very well indeed. In this mode, it would not as Suw says, ever complete its remit.

]]> By: Suw Charman http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/12/02/digital-rights-in-the-uk-your-rights-your-issues/#comment-157 Suw Charman Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:15:24 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/?p=39#comment-157 Martin, if you want to go do something else, go do it. You obviously don't like what we are doing, and that's fine by me. We are gonna do the media thing, the public consultation thing, the writing white papers thing, the signing open letters thing, and there's obviously nothing within the raft of activities we intend to undertake to which you could usefully and constructively contribute. So you go do your own thing. Go be patronising to the 'unwashed masses' and incite them to 'rise up' if you like. Go be your digital rights extremists if you like. I'd be happy to watch your progress as you work towards whatever endgame you think exists. Martin, if you want to go do something else, go do it. You obviously don’t like what we are doing, and that’s fine by me. We are gonna do the media thing, the public consultation thing, the writing white papers thing, the signing open letters thing, and there’s obviously nothing within the raft of activities we intend to undertake to which you could usefully and constructively contribute.

So you go do your own thing. Go be patronising to the ‘unwashed masses’ and incite them to ‘rise up’ if you like. Go be your digital rights extremists if you like. I’d be happy to watch your progress as you work towards whatever endgame you think exists.

]]> By: Martin Coxall http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/12/02/digital-rights-in-the-uk-your-rights-your-issues/#comment-154 Martin Coxall Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:57:45 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/?p=39#comment-154 No endgame? Tsk. As regards the future of ORG, in the absence of any statement from anybody in a position of ‘authority’ that ORG is going to do anything at all, we must assume that it intends to remain a flaccid talking shop. Mailer, I and Levine would be happy to be “digital rights extremist” rent-a-quotes, if that would be of help to ORG. Rather than the vapid “media hub” outpourings of Sue (Suw? Sujje? Psujjewe?) and her flappy ilk, we’d be happy to give people something meaty to chew on. Martin Coxall No endgame? Tsk.

As regards the future of ORG, in the absence of any statement from anybody in a position of ‘authority’ that ORG is going to do anything at all, we must assume that it intends to remain a flaccid talking shop.

Mailer, I and Levine would be happy to be “digital rights extremist” rent-a-quotes, if that would be of help to ORG.

Rather than the vapid “media hub” outpourings of Sue (Suw? Sujje? Psujjewe?) and her flappy ilk, we’d be happy to give people something meaty to chew on.

Martin Coxall

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