No doubt the oligarchs have seen what an effective tool false copyright infringement claims have been in the civilised world - a no-trial, no-evidence way of cutting off websites that displease the authorities - and are keen to use them to give their future repressive moves a veneer of legality.

SOCA (or their successors) clearly seeking to expand their powers to punish people without evidence. New Labour laws have already made it possible for them to 'seize' money unless the owner can prove that they came by it honestly - this can be authorised by a court without any evidence other than the unsupported word of SOCA personnel.

Couldn't the anti-Klan statutes be used against these people? Depriving citizens of their rights while acting under colour of law?

Twitter in China = FREEDOM Twitter in the UK = NASTINESS Cameron you utter hypocrite.

Google v the Israeli government. Is there some way they can both lose?

I detect a tiny tiny amount of bias in the anonymous reader's summary of this story. He's just a lackey hoping that the ruling class will throw him a bone if he's a good dog.

Someone who openly fantasises about people being raped in prison is an unsuitable person to pass judgement on a credit card fraudster. You and he are both on the same level of degeneracy.

Real books generally, except for out-of-print, out-of-copyright stuff as text files from Gutenberg. It's foolish of people to be so enthusiastic about handing control of the published word over to Amazon - the _1984_ incident is just a foretaste of what will happen if they and their collaborators get their way.

As far as I'm concerned it's very clear who the real 'predators' are in this scenario. That sort of ridiculous macho bullshit deprieves their claims of any credibility.

Where there is any choice I never deal with any firm that exports jobs in this way, partly because they're evading UK employment law by exploiting people in the third world, and partly because the service isn't up to scratch. By putting customer service in the hands of people who can't speak or understand English they're showing sheer contempt for their customers.

Take off Murdoch, you have been rumbled! Surely now the guilty News International employees must be named and shamed so that the vigilante justice that the News of the World so approves of can be done.

Isn't it enough that he's already being subjected to harrassment amounting to torture, without even having been convicted? He should be discharged immediately and his torturers, and the people who authorised them, should replace him in the dock.

Being ripped off by Steve Jobs is still better than being ripped off by Bill Gates because - er - I can't recall the exact reason but I'm sure the Applefan zombies will be along to explain it soon.