Last night’s Panorama “Are the net police coming for you?” featured Jo Whiley looking at a proposed new law targeting illegal downloaders. Much of the programme focused on the disagreement between the music artists, with the likes of Billy Bragg, Kate Nash and Marillion’s Mark Kelly arguing for a reappraisal of the business models and people [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TalkTalk has branded U2 windbag Bono’s intervention in the debate over illegal filesharing “outrageous”, after he said efforts to block child pornography showed ISPs should be doing more to protect intellectual property, writes Chris Williams in the Register. You can read Williams’ full analysis on the Register.
Meanwhile, our blog post earlier has been reported on pcadvisor.co.uk, [...]
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 disconnection plans set out in the Digital Economy Bill will cost consumers £500 million, according to admissions by the ministers.
Proposals to suspend the internet connections of those who repeatedly share music and films online will leave consumers with a bill for £500 million, ministers have admitted.
The Digital Economy Bill would force internet service providers [...]
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 legislation [...]
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 cry [...]
