Digital Economy (11 articles)
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BT and TalkTalk beaten in Digital Economy Act appeal
File sharing woes 6 March 2012 16:23 GMT TweetBT and TalkTalk have failed with an appeal over copyright infringement with regards to online file-sharing. The appeal by the two ISPs was a protest against the UK's Digital Economy Act that was passed in the last few weeks of the Labour government...
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Premier League teams up to take on ISPs in Digital Economy Act row
Rights holders and ISPs go toe-to-toe 31 January 2011 12:41 GMT TweetThe Digital Economy Act - you remember that, right? (it caused quite a fuss when it was introduced last year)?
Well, it looks as if the fuss is set to return as the Premier League has teamed up with eight other organisations including the Producers'...
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BT and TalkTalk willing to fight Digital Economy Act
Is it because they care about your freedom, or is it all just about the money? 8 July 2010 10:44 GMT TweetBT and TalkTalk are taking their opposition to the Digital Economy Act to the High Court, after both companies filed papers asking for a judicial review of the controversial act.
The Act, which was rushed through at the tail-end of the Labour's...
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Ofcom acts on Digital Economy Act
Three strikes and you're in court rather than out 28 May 2010 15:51 GMT TweetOfcom has published the draft initial obligations code as a result of the guidelines laid out in the controversial Digital Economy Act. As expected, it includes a three strikes rule, which could see persistent file sharers ending up in court over copyright...
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Digital Economy Bill here to stay
Coalition government "not going to repeal it" 24 May 2010 11:57 GMT TweetNew Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has stated that the new Government will not overturn the Digital Economy Bill, as rushed through in the last few weeks of Labour's tenure.
The controversial bill which, among other...
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Superfast broadband could be funded by licence fee
50p broadband tax to be scrapped in our Con-Dem-nation 20 May 2010 16:57 GMT TweetThe 50p broadband tax that Labour wanted to introduce has been scrapped by the new coalition government. Instead the money to fund the superfast network, which isn't really superfast at all, will be raised by skimming money off of the top of the licence...
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Pirate Party fails to score electoral success
Across 9 seats, fewer than 250 votes in any constituency 7 May 2010 10:17 GMT TweetWhile the UK wakes up to a hung parliament in the wake of May 2010's general election, many commentators are suggesting that none of the main parties achieved much electoral success. That includes one of Britain's newest and geekiest parties - Pirate...
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Lib Dems pledge to bin Digital Economy Bill
But 71% of their MPs didn't vote against it 16 April 2010 16:13 GMT TweetNick Clegg, buoyed by his success in the first of the three TV debates, has been making a few new promises to voters. One of them is that his party's going to be calling for a repeal of the Digital Economy Act (formerly the Digital Economy Bill) and...
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TalkTalk "will never surrender" over DEB
Never surrender your contact details, that is. 12 April 2010 17:48 GMT TweetTalkTalk, the loudest voice behind most ISP's general disapproval of the proposals put forward in Labour's unloved Digital Economy Bill, has vowed to continue the fight against the bill, despite it becoming law in the Parliamentary wash-up period.
The...
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Digital Economy Bill: What it means for filesharers
Pirates penalised 8 April 2010 18:21 GMT TweetIf you haven't been languishing in a cave or living in some remote corner of the globe without TV or internet access, then you have probably come across something called the Digital Economy Bill.
This bill was recently passed and it has within...
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UK Gov backtracks on Digital Economy bill
But BPI proposes DMCA-like injunctions 13 January 2010 12:42 GMT TweetShenanigans are afoot in the House Of Lords, as Parliament scrutinizes Peter Mandelson's Digital Economy bill, which Peter Mandelson is desperately trying to push through before the general election looms.
The government has backtracked on...