The Digital Economy Bill, published today, is a further backward step in the efforts to reduce illegal filesharing while further threatening the rights of the consumer. The Bill proposes that the Government can introduce new measures to punish people they think are infringing copyright without having to prove their case in court. This so-called secondary [...]
The new EU agreement on telecoms regulation will make it almost impossible for film studios and music labels to force ISPs to disconnect customers who are suspected of illegal filesharing without first obtaining a court order. That is the view of telecoms and copyright lawyers contacted by TalkTalk, the UK’s biggest broadband provider to homes [...]
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 [...]
Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw is reported to have announced that the Government has ‘watered down’ its filesharing proposals. “Rights holders will have to obtain a court order before punishing persistent offenders by reducing or cutting off their internet connections,” he told the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday. Great. A victory [...]
New campaign launched against Mandelson filesharing plans About seven million* homes and small businesses are vulnerable to Wi-Fi hijacking and so at risk of being wrongly disconnected from the Internet according to a new study into broadband security released today. The study coincides with today’s launch of a campaign against Lord Mandelson’s plans to disconnect [...]
Stanmore experiment exposes extent of problem Millions of innocent broadband customers could be in danger of being caught out by Lord Mandelson’s ill-conceived proposals to curb internet piracy according to TalkTalk, the UK’s largest broadband provider to homes. To demonstrate the point, an internet security expert from TalkTalk today visited The Highway, a residential road [...]
TalkTalk is dismayed by the U-turn on illegal filesharing announced today by Lord Mandelson. Barely two months after the publication of largely sensible and pragmatic measures to tackle the problem (in the Digital Britain Report) Lord Mandelson has, it seems, caved in under pressure from powerful lobbyists in the content industry. TalkTalk supported proposals outlined [...]
