peter broadwell a campaigner from the u.k. based open rights group thanks for your perspective.well the u.s. senate has postponed a test vote on one of the controversial web control bills in the wake of the online protest campaign barrett brown who's worked with the hacker group anonymous on various operations told r.t. that if the u.s. decides to push through the legislation it could start a huge cyber war. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments. is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power for many other things so and the way that you know this that this raid on mega upload cards in this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners megaupload and shutting it down so imagine when some post. in the meantime my group project. initiated operation dog park which is the latest effort. to ensure that soap is the one that those who support so are around and intimidated and otherwise to make sure that these things don'

google blacked out their pages in protest peter broadwell a campaigner from the u.k. based open rights group says illegal online downloading only exists because the entertainment industry has failed to keep pace with consumers. recognize that those kind of sites can often be really legitimate and important services there are rules about how they are supposed to respond quickly to reports of copyright infringement we should be judging how good or bad these things are according to how how quickly they respond to those things i think we need to be really careful for the baby out with the bathwater with this guest incentivize people for running legitimate and useful services like those two things that policymakers should be doing now and they should be taking this opportunity to engage with constructive dialogue with with the people who have spoken out about this firstly they need to look again at the evidence around the nature of the problem and they spent far too little time really analyzing what this problem looks like an understanding who's involved and who's causing

including we keep pedia went black in protest this week at the budget's lation we're joined now by peter broadwella campaigner from the u.k. based open rights group thanks for your time so why should.