The General Election seems to be influencing the Business Secretary’s plans. James Blunt, who wrote to Lord Mandelson on the vexed subject of internet piracy, called the internet service providers “drug pushers” in an e-mail that the minister saw fit to publish this week. Those terrible ISPs, you see, are the people who allow us [...]
Lord Mandelson’s anti-piracy measures for the internet have been welcomed by many content owners. But is the Government’s suggestion of internet disconnections for repeat offenders set to become reality? While the Secretary of State may be one of Parliament’s few doers, the much-anticipated proposals are not clear enough and do not come soon enough to [...]
TalkTalk has created a special ‘brightdancing’ advertisement, made famous by X Factor, as a protest against Lord Mandelson’s plans to disconnect people accused of internet piracy without a trial. Over the past few weeks millions of X Factor fans have been exposed to ‘brightdancing’ – using torches or mobile phones to create images out of [...]
TalkTalk is dismayed to learn that Lord Mandelson is to press ahead with his ill-conceived plans to allow content providers to force ISPs to disconnect people suspected of illegal filesharing. The approach is based on the principle of ‘guilty until proven innocent’ and substitutes proper judicial process for a kangaroo court. What is being proposed [...]
Full steam ahead for Mandelson’s disconnection plans. Lord Mandelson will say today that he intends to press ahead with controversial measures to cut off the internet connections of people caught downloading pirated music, films or television programmes. The Business Secretary plans to introduce legislation to ensure that serial pirates will have their home internet services [...]
Peter Madelson will today announce how the governement will deal with filesharers. Business secretary Peter Mandelson is expected to outline how the UK government will deal with file-sharers on 28th October. He will lay out the plans at a government-sponsored forum to debate how the creative industries should tackle copyright issues. The issue has divided [...]
The chief executive of Vivendi (which owns Universal Music) thinks the “three-strikes” will protect content owners. Jean-Bernard Levy tells the C&binet Forum that UK should follow France’s lead by cutting off internet access for persistent illegal downloaders Jean-Bernard Levy, the chief executive of Vivendi, the French owner of the world’s largest record company, Universal Music, [...]
The CEO of Sony Pictures suggests illegal file sharers be temporarily disconnected to protect the film industry. Our film Michael Jackson’s This Is It opens almost everywhere in the world tomorrow. With millions of Jackson fans on every continent, it wouldn’t make sense to do otherwise. But there’s another reason why simultaneous worldwide releases of [...]
Shadow Minister of Culture & Creative Industries at the Conservative Party, Ed Vaizey, has posed a question on business networking site LinkedIn: “What is the best way for an incoming government to address the issue of online piracy?” At time of writing there are already over 70 thought provoking responses and unsurprisingly there’s no a [...]
The success of political parties could depend on their stance on broadband issues. Broadband-related issues are becoming increasingly important to voters, an expert has claimed. Many people are beginning to judge political parties on their broadband-related policies, it has been suggested. According to John Russell, editor at DailyMusicGuide.com, the stance that certain organisations take on [...]
