Common sense revolts at the idea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6329851.stm
‘An EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is “seriously misguided”, a House of Lords committee has said.’
Sometimes the House of Lords does something to make me really glad that they exist. Now I’m no expert on the workings of our UK political system, but it seems to me that whenever I hear of a high profile case making its way to the House of Lords, they do the sensible thing. So whilst people may complain that its “staffed” by life peers and hereditary peers, that’s fine by me whilst they continue to make the right decisions.
I particularly like the way the all-party Lords European Union Committee rejected the changes, saying it was not the role of regulation to protect established broadcasters from new competition operating under different business models.
(the title of the post is taken from a Court paper issued by Justice Douglas when, with a single paragraph, he erased hundreds of years of US property law. It was a case in 1903 where some farmers complained that airplanes were trespassing. According to the law at the time their property extended “an indefinite extent, upwards”)