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Mandybill: innocence restored, fines for copyright cockups
You mean I can finish this download? Mandybill Overnight amendments tabled by Lord Mandelson give significant concessions to critics of the Digital Economy Bill.…
Continue reading »UK Says ‘No’ To Disconnecting File-Sharers, Sort Of
In November 2009, details finally became public concerning the UK Digital Economy Bill, which aimed to turn elements of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report into law. Part of the proposals indicated that Internet users would face being monitored by the music and movie industries. Their ISPs would then be required to pass on copyright infringement notices based on evidence supplied by anti-piracy tracking companies.
Continue reading »Mandybill is mostly harmless, says MP watchdog
But wants more detail A committee of MPs has surprisingly said that copyright infringement penalties for internet users proposed in the Digital Economy are justifiable. However, it wants the Government to explain them better, and publish more detail – particularly on the threshold for suspending the accounts of serial infringers.… ?
Continue reading »Changes to the Digital Economy Bill Make No Difference, Says Music Industry
A few days ago we reported the creation of a new group, The European Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee ‘whose purpose,’ we said ‘is to lobby the European Union to reinforce its actions against illegal file sharers.’ This happened just as the controversy of the Digital Economy Bill reached a very high point. Now changes have been made to the clause 17 of the legislation which makes possible the intervention of the Secretary of State to place the copyright law under stricter parameters to increase the efficiency in fighting online piracy. It seems that Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has amended his own clause following the lobbying from major companies like Google whose concerns that they will be targeted pushed for such actions and Lib Dem Lords’ worries that the Secretary has been allowed a much too bigger liberty with too little parliamentary scrutiny.
Continue reading »Google banned 30,000 advertisers post Economic Resurrection
Ad police suddenly affordable In the fall of 2008, when the worldwide economy began to melt, Google responded by shamelessly expanding ad coverage on its web-dominating search engine, letting more ads onto more pages. But now that the economy has recovered, the web giant has suddenly become more much vigilant in its efforts to weed out what it considers low-quality advertising.… ?
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