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		<title>Filesharing Laws to be limited to Large ISPs by Ofcom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 05:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been reported that the terms that featured in the Digital Economy Bill of the government of the United Kingdom would only affect the internet service providers with over 400,000 subscribers initially. Trefor Davies, the chief executive of Timico revealed in one of his blog postings that the telecommunications watchdog of the United Kingdom, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5886" title="Online Filesharing Law" src="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/uk-isp/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Online-Filesharing-Law-300x160.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="160" />It has been reported that the terms that featured in the Digital Economy Bill of the government of the United Kingdom would only affect the internet service providers with over 400,000 subscribers initially.</p>
<p>Trefor Davies, the chief executive of Timico revealed in one of his blog postings that the telecommunications watchdog of the United Kingdom, Ofcom has confirmed the fresh legislation would just impact over seven <a href="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/"><b>UK broadband</b></a> providers and would seldom include <a href="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/mobile-broadband.php"><b>mobile broadband</b></a>.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, there were plans to make sure that the code would be engaged in regard to every broadband internet company whose users shared online files illegally.</p>
<p>Davies further disclosed that illegal online downloaders that migrated to a broadband provider that were hardly included in the code&#8217;s soft launch would be eventually covered as the regulator followed the traffic.</p>
<p>Davies added that the regulator was also analysing closely the levels of copyright infringement besides what was preventing the realisation of new innovative business models.</p>
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		<title>Sarkozy Bruni split and the sinking French Online Piracy Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been reported that the French presidential marriage was on the rocks much like the credibility of the three strikes anti-online filesharers law of France, handpicked and pampered to the podium by the celebrity couple. As a matter of fact, it is a point to ponder whether Nickolas Sarkozy had really a soft corner [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">It has been reported that the French presidential marriage was on the rocks much like the credibility of the three strikes anti-online filesharers law of France, handpicked and pampered to the podium by the celebrity couple.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">As a matter of fact, it is a point to ponder whether Nickolas Sarkozy had really a soft corner for this legislation, although his wife that had been a product of the copyright industry and was still living it, had been keen on it &#8211; if you can call that lobbying.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">These days both presidantial marriage and the French three strikes anti-online piracy law have taken serious hits with a torrent of reports linking the president with Chantal Jouanno the French Ecology minister, and his wife with Benjamin Biolay an award winning musician, literally tarnishing the respectability of the marriage while the other thing, the much touted of law has been virtually reduced to a show-piece with downloaders adopting alternatives to bypass it.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">It is fact that there is a law in France to prevent illegal downloaders from doing it persistently; nonetheless the big question is now that the first lady has showed her real colours to blow life to a fresh romance, which too with a mop-haired trademark cutie of the creative industry bound by copyright, would the president carry on with the same alacrity he had shown earlier when his love life with Bruni was at its whirlwind best.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">It is also believed that with reports coming in saying online illegal downloading has only increased despite the adoption of the three strikes law in the country, at least some of the broadband providers here would start protesting. And whatmore needed for a perfect ignition when a fresh research has revealed that disconnecting the downloaders actually was hurting the revenues of the creative industry.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">On the whole, it is tough times ahead for both the prestigeous presidential marriage and the controversial anti-online piracy law of the French.</div>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4949" title="Dead End Ahead for Sarkozy Bruni" src="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/uk-isp/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Dead-End-Ahead-for-Sarkozy-Bruni.jpg" alt="Dead End Ahead for Sarkozy Bruni" width="360" height="260" />It has been reported that the French presidential marriage was on the rocks much like the credibility of the three strikes anti-online filesharers law of France, handpicked and pampered to the podium by the celebrity couple.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, it is a point to ponder whether Nickolas Sarkozy had really a soft corner for this legislation, although his wife that had been a product of the copyright industry and was still living it, had been keen on it &#8211; if you can call that lobbying.</p>
<p>These days both presidantial marriage and the French three strikes anti-online piracy law have taken serious hits with a torrent of reports linking the president with Chantal Jouanno the French Ecology minister, and his wife with Benjamin Biolay an award winning musician, literally tarnishing the respectability of the marriage while the other thing, the much touted of law has been virtually reduced to a show-piece with downloaders adopting alternatives to bypass it.</p>
<p>It is fact that there is a law in France to prevent illegal downloaders from doing it persistently; nonetheless the big question is now that the first lady has showed her real colours to blow life to a fresh romance, which too with a mop-haired trademark cutie of the creative industry bound by copyright, would the president carry on with the same alacrity he had shown earlier when his love life with Bruni was at its whirlwind best.</p>
<p>It is also believed that with reports coming in saying online illegal downloading has only increased despite the adoption of the three strikes law in the country, at least some of the broadband providers here would start protesting. And whatmore needed for a perfect ignition when a fresh research has revealed that disconnecting the downloaders actually was hurting the revenues of the creative industry.</p>
<p>On the whole, it is tough times ahead for both the prestigeous presidential marriage and the controversial anti-online piracy law of the French. However, Bruni can afford a broad smile; she has not only at least for once tasted the altitudes that she had always dreamt of wildly but also has pushed it through shrewdly for her godfathers &#8211; and for herself &#8211; in the music industry.</p>
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		<title>Call to technicalise Broadband Disconnection Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been claimed by a broadband internet sector expert that the proposal of the government to disconnect persisitent illegal online filesharers required to highlight increased technical practicalities. The expert has made it clearer by saying that the government was required to elaborate on its cut off plans of the broadband connections enjoyed by the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been claimed by a <b><a href="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk">broadband</a></b> internet sector expert that the proposal of the government to disconnect persisitent illegal online filesharers required to highlight increased technical practicalities.</p>
<p>The expert has made it clearer by saying that the government was required to elaborate on its cut off plans of the broadband connections enjoyed by the persistent illegal downloaders of copyright content.</p>
<p>The expert that has expressed her views is Deborah Prince, legal affairs head at consumer magazine Which?. According to her, although the digital economy bill was reasonable as a whole, the ministers needed to technically explain how they were going to identify those who were guilty of illegal filesharing.</p>
<p>Prince explained while talking to the Daily Telegraph that a general acceptance existed on the view that illegal activity on an internet connection may not be connected to the account holder as there also existed the threat of potential hacking of the service.</p>
<p>Prince added that it was critical that these anti-filesharing measures would be used mostly to educate the users rather than for beating them up.</p>
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		<title>Simon Cowell wades into Anti-Piracy Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angeline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Cowell has turned out to be the latest music industry bigwig to have waded into the deeply mired online filesharing issue that is currently rocking at least the broadband internetsegment, if not the digital world comprehensively. According to reports, the pop mogul has launched his seemingly maiden piece of political lobbying in the United [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon Cowell has turned out to be the latest music industry bigwig to have waded into the deeply mired online filesharing issue that is currently rocking at least the <a href="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/"><b>broadband</b></a> internetsegment, if not the digital world comprehensively.</p>
<p>According to reports, the pop mogul has launched his seemingly maiden piece of political lobbying in the United Kingdom, as he urged the MPs to pass the anti-piracy measures proposed by the Digital Economy Bill as a matter of urgency.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.telegraph.co.uk/?referer=');"><b>Telegraph</b></a> has reported as seeing a strongly worded letter signed by Cowell, alongside a number of other prominent figures from the literary and film world, which would be recieved by the MPs and Lords on February 22.</p>
<p>The letter, according to the popular newspaper urges the MPs and Lords to urge the government to get the Digital Economy Bill&#8217;s anti-piracy measures pushed through. Something that could see the broadband internet connections of persistent online filesharers being cut off.</p>
<p>Reports say that the letter that also includes the signature of Sir Terry Pratchett who represents the author&#8217;s interests, states that the bill would ensure that the creators, entertainment firms and the 1.8 million people that depend on the cultural sector for a livelihood were rewarded as well as respected in the future as they had been in the past, for they get a decent payment when their work is put online.</p>
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		<title>Oz Court exonerates ISP of Copyright Infringement Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angeline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of exuberant internet service providers operating in the United Kingdom must have enjoyed as well as welcomed a fresh verdict given by the Australian Federal Court that a broadband provider of down under, which was accused of allowing copyright infringement by its customers was not responsible for the offense. As a matter of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4757" title="Historic Australian Verdict on Illegal Online Filesharing" src="http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/uk-isp/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Historic-Australian-Verdict-on-Illegal-Online-Filesharing-232x300.jpg" alt="Historic Australian Verdict on Illegal Online Filesharing" width="232" height="300" />A group of exuberant internet service providers operating in the United Kingdom must have enjoyed as well as welcomed a fresh verdict given by the Australian Federal Court that a broadband provider of down under, which was accused of allowing copyright infringement by its customers was not responsible for the offense.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, accusation was made against the Australian internet service provider, iiNet by the Australian Federation against Theft of Copyright, on the grounds of authorising theft of copyright content by its customers. The case was brought forth by a joint force including all major studios of Hollywood.</p>
<p>The judge, following a trial hearing, ruled that whilst the ISP provided the means for downloading copyright content for its customers, it hardly authorised infringement; and the blame was put on Bit Torrent, the P2P application.</p>
<p>According to the judgment that ruled out iiNet&#8217;s involvement in the infringements, the violations of copyright had directly occurred as a result of the use of the P2P application Bit Torrent system and not the internet use. It further noted that the respondent neither created nor controlled the P2P application, furthermore it also did not enjoy the power to prevent the occurring of those infringements.</p>
<p>In the United Kingdom, the government has already proposed that the broadband providers operating in the country must be held responsible for issuing warning letters, and potentially disconnecting the broadband internet connections of still persisting illegal filesharers.</p>
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