Andrew Heaney, Talk Talk’s director of strategy, was on BBC Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ Programme this afternoon to discuss the Digital Economy Bill. Andrew explained TalkTalk’s views and made clear how the Bill’s proposals will affect consumers’ fundamental rights. You can listen to the interview here: iPlayer (1:55 in).
If you were listening to Radio 4’s Today programme this morning you might have heard the BPI’s Geoff Taylor discussing the Digital Economy Bill with David Babbs from the campaign organisation 38 Degrees. Of course, Geoff and the BPI are in favour of the Bill, which we have staunchly opposed. So we were surprised [...]
Dan Bull’s song takes you back to the 80s when “home taping was killing music” We all know that the government’s disconnection proposals to deter illegal filesharing are daft and dangerous; and many would agree that the way many people in the music industry have reacted is a little misguided. After all, haven’t we seen [...]
Thousands of people have viewed a punk protest song after Stephen Fry raved about it on Twitter. Only Idiots Assume written by Londoner Liam Mullone and sung by his friend Hils Barker, is a stinging attack on the Government’s plans to disconnect people suspected of watching films and music online without paying for the privilege. [...]
‘Robin Hood’ developers will neuter Bill with new applications and tools The Digital Economy Bill will have precisely the opposite of its desired effect. The Bill will ignite the development of tools that make it easier for people to access music, films and other copyright-protected material for free and undetected, defeating any attempt to [...]
The reverberations from Bono’s sermon about filesharing earlier in the month continue to be felt. Following our own broadside (interpretted by some as a bitchslap) and a whole host of bloggers and Twitter users airing their views on the U2 frontman, a music entrepreneur has written a guest opinion piece on The Register that shows [...]
Bono has accused ISPs of profiting from illegal filesharing and has suggested that ISPs curb copyright infringement in the same way they tackle child pornography.
“The government’s proposed ‘Three-Strike’ Copyright Protection Law is ill-conceived, constitutionally outrageous, morally unfair and epically foolish.” – Stephen Fry. Stephen Fry has agreed to judge a competition to create a protest song, poem or other form of artistic expression against the proposed ‘Three Strikes’ law. The law is designed to protect the music and film [...]
TalkTalk believes the Government’s Digital Economy Bill has serious shortcomings in relation to the provisions on illegal file-sharing. It is their view that the Bill would be deeply damaging to the rights of consumers, and could lead to damage to the internet more widely, whilst failing to solve the underlying problem with file-sharing. TalkTalk’s main [...]
Thousands of people have signed the Don’t Disconnect Us petition to overturn internet piracy legislation after Stephen Fry used Twitter to alert people to the perils of the proposed law. Within 24 hours of Fry’s tweet on Sunday morning the petition, originally lodged by Andrew Heaney of broadband company TalkTalk, had passed 8,000 – more [...]
