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TheEvilOverlord writes “The administrator of UK ISP TalkTalk, Charles Dunstone, has made the reaction before of the communications minister’s Digital Britain study that felonious downloading cannot be stopped. He said ‘If you endeavour race humps or disconnections pro peer-to-peer, people devise totally either camouflage their see trade or part the gratified another feeling. It is a plucky of Tom and Jerry and you on on no account get on the mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

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Some 20,000 tickets for England’s World Cup qualifier with Andorra at Wembley next Wednesday might not go on sale because of a planned strike on London Underground.

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