Future Publishing Mentioned in Parliament Regarding Internet Piracy

Bath-based Future Publishing was mentioned in Parliament in the UK recently in relation to Internet piracy.

The company was brought up by Bath MP Don Foster in the following exchange:

"Don Foster (Bath, Liberal Democrat)
I thank the hon. Gentleman very much for drawing attention to magazines. Often in these debates, we talk about music, film and video games; rarely do we mention magazines. However, the figures show that there is huge piracy of magazines. Future Publishing in my constituency is in real difficulty because of what is happening.

Mike Weatherley (Hove, Conservative)
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Future Publishing has pointed out to me a website—I think it is in Poland—that reproduces all its magazines online to as high a quality as it can. That is the type of thing that we need to shut down, so I welcome the intervention.

Don Foster (Bath, Liberal Democrat)
I apologise for intervening again, but the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I, too, have seen that website. Pornographic material is included on the same site. The interesting thing is that it purports to be a genuine site, in that people have to pay a small amount of money to use it, so it is misleading consumers. It also contains advertising from reputable firms. We must deal with that."

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