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Antitrust incoming? Google hit by EU complaint, FCC filing
Turning search into powerful marketing channel for own services, claims Foundem Shopping comparison site Foundem this week fired the opening shots in the coming Google antitrust battle, with a complaint to the European Commission and a filing with the US Federal Communications Commission accusing Google of posing “an immediate threat to competition and innovation.” The US filing is in response to the FCC’s net neutrality enquiry, and seeks to have search neutrality included in FCC rule-making.…
Continue reading »UK ISPs Concerned P2P Crackdown Will “Undermine” Digital Economy
Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK ) Says focus should be on “reform of content licensing to enable legal alternatives at a fair price.” The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the UK’s Trade Association for providers of Internet services that was established in 1995 to promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry, is once again voicing its opposition for “ evolved ” plans by UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to impose technical measures against accused file-sharers that includes Internet disconnection. It’s concerned that the recently introduced Digital Economy Bill , far from strengthening the nation’s communications infrastructure, will penalize the success of the Internet industry and undermine the backbone of the digital economy. “ISPA is extremely disappointed by aspects of the proposals to address illicit file-sharing,” said ISPA Secretary General Nicholas Lansman.
Continue reading »UK Govt Plans “2-Strikes” for File-Sharers Instead of 3
Will now only send one warning letter to those accused of illegal file-sharing before it implements technical measures that include Internet disconnection. UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has apparently been quite successful in lobbying for legislation to implement its “ evolved ” measures for tackling illegal file-sharing. So successful in fact, that a “three-strikes,” i.e.
Continue reading »Voddler Offers Movies On-Demand
Users can watch over 800 movies for free or at little cost. Content innovation apparently continues to elude the US with news that a new Sweden-based movies on-demand service called Voddler launched a few weeks ago. Though comparable to Hulu, users of the services’s free movie section are only forced to watch a single advertisement that appears before the movie begins, much like the experience at a movie theater.
Continue reading »An Open Letter to Peter Mandelson
Dear Peter Mandelson, I am writing to you regarding the #3strikes internet piracy legislation that you have recently confirmed. I am involved in both the sectors of which you are taking such a damaging interest in, and although I don’t have the money to lobby on the same level as the music industry, I speak to you now as an investor. As an investor in the online world.
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