telecommunications
Blank TV screens instead of programs?
p2pnet news view Politics | TV:- In the weeks leading to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing on broadcasting licences, Canadians were inundated with splashy advertising campaigns claiming that new fees for local signals were either a TV tax or would save local television. With all of the major broadcasters and cable companies appearing before the commission, the fee-for-carriage (or value-for-signal) issue unsurprisingly took centre stage at last week’s hearing. Yet those convinced that the broadcaster plan was limited to a new fee were in for a rude awakening.
Continue reading »Do-Not-Call-List violators identified
The CRTC has been going blue trying to keep secret the identities of two telemarketeers whose owners had knowingly violated Canada’s national do-not-call list. Now they’ve been named as Rob Sugar and Peerless Mason Ltd — and by the CRTC itself. And Peerless has two dishonourable mentions.
Continue reading »Paramount $1 movie deal
While Hollywood does it best to shut down any and allfile sharing portals, some of the studios appear to be doing their very best to ensure there’s a cheap, and readily available, way of obtaining ‘product’. “Here is an easy (theoritical) tutorial on how to get your movies for $1,” said surfer in July, going on, “Sorry this tutorial is only good where you can actually rent a DVD for $1,” and, “Go to a McDonalds that has a DVD rental kiosk out front”. He was talking about Redbox .
Continue reading »UK anti-file sharing move angers ISPs
|| Politics:- All is not well in Not-So-Great-Britain following the announcement, “People who persist in swapping copyrighted films and music will have their internet connections cut off under tough new laws to be proposed by the government,” as The Guardian summed it up. But some British ISPs, the people who’d have to make it work, and who’d also take the brunt of any repercussions from users, don’t see it like that. Consumer Focus and the UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) both, “reacted with concern” to news that the government could force broadband ISPs to cut-off those ’suspected’ of involvement with illegal file sharing piracy, says ISPreview , going on to ISP TalkTalk as stating »»» We’re dismayed by the U-turn on illegal filesharing announced today by Lord Mandelson.
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