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That makes no sense. First of all the driver is ETSI which the UK is a big part of, secondly even a non EU country (Switzerland) is behind this. Even after Brexit the UK will likely adopt this.
Sure, but it'll also make it easier to revert.
If this is approved, I expect a few other similar laws to protect the "common good". Car manufacturers should verify and approve all possible combinations of modifications. You shouldn't be able to increase your horsepower (and possibly kill more people), surely the car manufacturer should take the blame and responsiblity for whatever you do with your car ;-)
As a matter of fact our good EU government (overlords) should regulate and ban whatever is not safe for us, they know better.
Being in EU, I'm going to add my comment to the official link provided in the OP blog post and I encourage everyone in the EU to do the same.
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“Regulate” != “Ban” And in this case, the proposed regulation is: “””[R]adio equipment [shall support] certain features in order to ensure that software can only be loaded into the radio equipment where the compliance of the combination of the radio equipment and software has been demonstrated.””” Now I don’t think that’s a well written rule, but my problem is the specifics rather than the general idea. I think that…
The problem is that we already have regulations to avoid broadcasting on restricted/licensed bands. In general, current regulation makes the owner of the equipment responsible for the broadcast. This new regulation will just stifle development on SDR technologies
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This. Article 13. Article 11. TTIP. CETA. Stupid ideas coming out of EU are more and more frequent. I don't want to give feedback. I want accountable and professional political representation that will not dare to come up with such ideas in the first place.
Politicians will always come up with dangerously worded good intentions every once in a while, regardless of which parliament it is — national or European. At least at the European level the number of folk that pick up on the risks of such articles is significantly higher than at the national level — especially for smaller countries. Asking for feedback on complex legislature proposals is surely preferable to exclusi…
I have to ask why should such piece of legislation exist in the first place? What problems of today does it aim to solve? What is the quantified impact of these problems that we need to adopt new regulation? I have read related documents and there is no such reasoning, just vague boilerplate.
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Reminds me of the ongoing fight over crypto-legislation. "They only have to win once, you have to be vigilant and win every single time" I also suspect that the current patent mess is a result of failing to win the continual defensive battle. I'd be interested to hear from any law or political theorists regarding this seemingly deep flaw in the system. What could be done to mitigate it? How do we stop the same bad la…
>They only have to win once, you have to be vigilant and win every single time The law is not a blockchain ledger. If bad law gets in, it can also get removed later.
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The problem is that we already have regulations to avoid broadcasting on restricted/licensed bands. In general, current regulation makes the owner of the equipment responsible for the broadcast. This new regulation will just stifle development on SDR technologies
And the current regulations are impossible to enforce. If they would work we wouldn’t be in this situation.
What situation? What crisis is happening I'm completely missing?
Who in their right mind is thinking up of these stupid rules? Are they aware of the world around them? I assume no :-( If this is approved, I expect a few other similar laws to protect the "common good". Car manufacturers should verify and approve all possible combinations of modifications. You shouldn't be able to increase your horsepower (and possibly kill more people), surely the car manufacturer should take the b…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/02/27/all-new-...
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>They only have to win once, you have to be vigilant and win every single time The law is not a blockchain ledger. If bad law gets in, it can also get removed later.
That takes a long time. In USA we've been trying to end drug prohibition for decades.
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That takes a long time. In USA we've been trying to end drug prohibition for decades.
That's because there's a big amount of people, myself included, who feel like drug prohibition is good, all things considered. Not because "editing" the law is hard. (I am not American).
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That's because there's a big amount of people, myself included, who feel like drug prohibition is good, all things considered. Not because "editing" the law is hard. (I am not American).
That doesn't make the situation different. All of these bad laws have supporters. (Largely because charlatans in government, law enforcement, and media constantly exaggerate dangers, but that's beside the point.)