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).
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 than [...]
The Government will order ISPs to disconnect file-sharers after receiving two warning letters.
The Government has used the Queen’s speech to confirm that it will press ahead with plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers.
The measures will be passed as part of the Digital Economy Bill, which will force ISPs to penalise persistent file-sharers.
PC Pro has the full [...]
Pirate Bay changes the system behind its the P2P network. They insist it is nothing to do with a court order.
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has shut down its tracker technology and replaced it with a new form of peer-to-peer network. The group claimed that the move was not down to a court order but [...]
Siôn Simon says “People who have done nothing wrong should not be in any danger of having their internet interfered with at all”.
Forthcoming laws to reduce the level of peer-to-peer copyright infringement with threats of disconnection will affect “hardly anybody, other than the most serious and egregious recidivistic offenders”, according to culture minister Sion Simon.
The [...]
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 and [...]
Internet users throughout Europe accused of illegal file-sharing are to receive more protection from being cut off by their service provider.
The European Parliament and Council is due to make a decision on its Telecoms Reform Package in late November.
The package will entitle users in all 27 EU states to be put through a “fair [...]
