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UK Dig Britain MP: Internet is an “Essential Service”
Stephen Timms highlights its important social, commercial, and economic benefits, but doesn’t say why it’s still okay to disconnect entire households under a three-strikes regime where the most egregious file-sharers – for whom the law would intended – can easily elude copyright holders anyways. The UK’s Digital Britain MP Stephen Timms made some interesting comments in the Telegraph recently that ought to make more people realize just how serious the discussion about disconnecting people from the Internet really is. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who feels Digital Britain’s current timetable , which stands at 2-3 yrs for a 70% reduction using a combination of notifications and technical measures, would take an “unacceptable amount of time to complete in a situation that calls for urgent action,” has proposed giving ISPs the power to disconnect repeat offenders ala a “three-strikes” graduated response system.
Continue reading »UK MP calls for Net regulation
If everyone online contributed, say, $1,000, we’d probably have enough cash available to build a spaceship, fly to the Moon and build a new city. We could call it P2Pia. Because with the entertainment cartels now controlling governments and politicians around the world, there’s no reason for anyone with any intelligence to want to stay on Earth.
Continue reading »RIAA backs out of Amurao
Holme Roberts & Owen lawyer Timothy Reynolds, currently rented out to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA, says he won’ t be able to make it for Lava Records v Amurao . Again. He’d already put it off, reports Ray Beckerman on Recording Industy vs The People , going on »»» The appellate argument in Lava Records v.
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