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UK MPs to Allow Blocked Sites to Appeal
Liberal Democrats prepare to amend their proposed amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, but disclosure that the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) wrote the original draft has led to calls for Parliament to fully debate the Bill. Earlier this month I mentioned how Liberal Democrat Lord Clement-Jones had proposed an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill that would cause a huge shift in the way ISPs are asked to deal with copyright infringement on their networks. Amendment 120a would give courts the power to “prevent access to specified online locations for the prevention of online copyright infringement” with the threat of “injunctions” against those ISPs that have “actual knowledge of another person using their service to infringe copyright,” but has failed to “prevent copyright infringement content being accessed at or via that online location or taken reasonable steps to remove copyright infringing content from that online location (or both).” What it doesn’t spell out is exactly how ISPs are supposed to verify claims of copyright infringement nor does it offer a means of appeal.
Continue reading »UK Bill Would Force ISPs to Block P2P Websites
Proposed amendment to the Digital Economy Bill threatens ISPs to “to prevent access to online locations specified in the order of the Court for the prevention of online copyright infringement,” but doesn’t require a verification process, resulting in a “serious chilling effect as ISP’s play (it) safe.” Conservative Lord Howard and Liberal Democrat Lord Clement Jones have proposed an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill that would cause a huge shift in the way ISPs are asked to deal with copyright infringement on their networks.
Continue reading »Mandelson Gets His Own Digital Economy Bill Protest Song
When Lily Allen inflamed the UK, and indeed, much of the Internet with her views on piracy a couple of months ago, it was difficult to see who could come along and create more controversy on the issue. But of course, Britain has a secret weapon – Peter Mandelson. Lord Mandelson, or ‘Mandy’ to those speaking of him affectionately, has truly set the cat among the pigeons with his Digital Economy Bill, pleasing almost no-one apart from Big Music and Big Movies, and alienating everyone from most of the ISPs in the country through to millions of Internet users.
Continue reading »Bell trumps Telus with high-speed launch
If you’re ready to sign three years away to get an iPhone in Canada, now’s your big chance! “The end of Rogers’ iPhone monopoly is drawing near, as its two main Canadian rivals prepare to launch their next-generation wireless network this week,” says the Toronto Star , going on: “BCE Inc. president and CEO George Cope said Bell Canada will launch its new high-speed wireless network Wednesday, one day before Telus Corp. does, though both companies worked to build the network and are sharing the new infrastructure.
Continue reading »Germany says ‘No!’ to 3 strikes law
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Do you think the cartels have an actual war-room — a dark, dank place where they do their futile plotting and planning? Their Three Strikes bidniz plan has absolutely no chance of any long-term success. It looks good in mainstream press corps(e), largely owned and/or directly or indirectly controlled by elements of the entertainment industry, but when it hits the streets, it’ll splatter right back into the faces of the politicians behind it, and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures.
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