[link|http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm|[link|http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm|http://www.patent.g...ht/index.htm]]

The UK is making their own version of the DMCA, named the EUCD. Same media companies pulling the strings of a different set of puppets in a different government.

This is not new, it has already been Slashdotted:
[link|http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/2326226&tid=153|[link|http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/2326226|http://yro.slashdot...0/27/2326226]&tid=153]

Info from the NTK:

[link|http://www.ntk.net/2002/08/09/|[link|http://www.ntk.net/2002/08/09/|http://www.ntk.net/2002/08/09/]]