On Mar 28, 2010 I wrote Labour's New Ad, on the subject of Rants, Government, and Laws.

The Labour Party have a new scheme: they'll crowdsource their new advert. According to http://www.labour.org.uk/create-labours-next-campaign, "for those who want to extend their creative skills we are offering you the chance to produce a poster which we will release on digital adboards over the Easter weekend."

So, here's my poster.

The text reads as follows:

Labour cares. (Picture of Gordon Brown)
About record companies. (Picture of gold-plated Porsche)
Not you. (Picture of a chap behind bars.) Worried about being disconnected from the internet without trial? Worried about the government rushing through a Bill without debate?
Worried that Britain's government rejects Britain's desire for fairness? Labour and the Tories are just as bad as one another.
Write to your MP. http://writetothem.org Support the Open Rights Group http://openrightsgroup.org

Get involved. Stand up for yourselves.

sil

As a free bonus, the website refuses to accept my PNG-format poster, saying "The file [png] can only have one of the following extensions: jpg, png, gif, tiff". So, fail.

Zun

So, Labour cares about record companies, and I don't?

Fine with me, I guess.

Giacomo

On this particular bill, the LibDems were just as bad as (or even worse than) Tories and NewLabour.

I guess that leaves the Greens.

Oliver

Yeah, The Libs and Tories weren't much better on this matter. I have already written to my MP. I hope it helps...

d0od

That is "mint" (as someone obsess with coin might say)

I despaired late last week when the Digital Economy Bill was all but rubber stamped into being. I really did. People were whinging in their thousands about the increase on cider but happily immobile on the internet and civil liberties being handed over to the music industry sheriffs.

In a few months when their internet is disconnected because they left their Wifi open and they find no evidence needs to be produced to do so, when they're not entitled to state-help to challenge the ruling and demands for money are pouring through their letter box then, i imagine, is when we'll start to see the rest of the country catch up.