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 [...]
Levels of online music piracy have remained unchanged in spite of the rise of legal digital services and the threat of tougher sanctions against downloaders, a music industry survey has found, reports Tim Bradshaw. Research by Harris Interactive for the BPI, which represents record labels in the UK, found that 23 per cent of consumers [...]
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 [...]
