Reports of the UK’s new plan to come down hard on internet piracy may have been exaggerated and really most of the coverage has come about because of the involvement of long time labour party stalwart Peter Mandelson. The UK media love to hate Mandelson who has had multiple positions of power in the last two UK Labour governments, and is usually hounded out of power by the UK press. Press reports in the UK have the story that Mandelson met with American film producer David Geffen on holiday and has come home intent on rushing through a change of government policy from his position at the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) which he now runs. The department…