Demiurgic

When I was a student I turned out at a NUS student rally protesting something to do with tuition fees. It was when I was in my first year so it must have been 2003/4. My tuition fees were around £1,000 per year and we were protesting against top-up fees. The barrier of entry for students was already quite high thanks to tuition fees costing on average more than £3,000 for a three year course. Ours was a peaceful protest. It was quite large but there was no rioting or destruction of property involved, and if there was it was isolated. But when the government comes out and says that tuition fees could hit £9,000 per year (nine times what I paid) I wasn’t surprised there was rioting on the streets.

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I’m reading on various news sites that David Cameron has announced a review of UK Copyright Laws to “make them fit for the Internet age.” What baffles me about this is that on the face of it this announcement seems progressive, which is baffling as it is coming from the ConDem government. Then I realised how much money could be made from a change to a more U.S.-style approach to “fair usage” laws.

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