<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman">The communication below is on the Greens mailing list. It is about twelve paragraphs of fairly lucid defense of open standards. I can't find it summarised on the Greens site, but the debate will be elsewhere. The point is that this is before parliament at present. If anyone want the full speech of a few hundred words I can send it privately or if there is enthusiasm, I'll post the lot.
<br></font></p><p align="center"><b><font color="#008000" face="Arial" size="6"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Copyright - Digital Technologies</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><a rel="nofollow"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Nandor Tanczos MP</font></u></a><font face="Arial">, Green Party Spokesperson on Commerce</font></p><br><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<br></span>Second Reading Speech, 23rd October 2007</font></b>
<br><font face="Times New Roman">The Greens alone opposed this bill at
its first reading. We voted against it because, contrary to the
ministry's 2002 advice, it served to protect access control technology,
which is technology that has been used to price discriminate and
control geographical distribution of works, to the detriment of users.<br><br>Cheers. <br> </font>