According to the claims of the internet service providers’ association, the digital economy bill put forward by the government has caused certain worries among the UK broadbandproviders, especially on the control limits afforded to the secretary of state regarding imposition of sanctions on firms.

The concern of the ISPA is more than evident in the comment given by its secretary general, Nicholas Lansman the legislation could also fall short of addressing the underlying issue.

According to him, the government should be exacting the reformation of the licensing framework by the rightsholders rather than blindly focusing on enforcement, which could realize in the online distribution of the legal content in a way that they were demanding clearly.

Lansman added that the association also had fears on the fact that persistent infringers could seek to steer clear from detection. This thinking of the body was very much in line with that of TalkTalk, a popular UK ISP that is renowned for its cheap business broadband packages.

TalkTalk had previously claimed that around 7 million businesses and homes in the United Kingdom were sitting ducks to WiFi hijacking, which also said that serial infringers might use their WiFi connections to access the content.

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Here is the list of winners of ISPA Awards 2008:

Category Winner

Best Consumer Broadband :  NewNet

Best Consumer ISP  :PlusNet

Best Business Broadband : Datanet

Best Business ISP : Eclipse Internet

Best Dial Up : Waitrose

Best Wireless ISP : Vodafone

Best Consumer Email : Entanet

Best Business Email : Eclipse Internet

Best Streaming : Astream

Best Portal : Bt.yahoo.com

Best Dedicated Hosting : UKFast

Best Shared Hosting :  Namesco

Best Internet Telephony : Entanet

ISPA has given away the following special awards to the winners and the list is as follows:

Internet Hero Award was won by Peter Robbins OBE QPM, Chief Executive, IWF for playing an important role in the enforcement of actions against illegal downloading from websites.

Richard Swetenham – Head of the eContent and Safer Internet Unit at the European Commission won this year’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Award for his outstanding role in drafting first Communication on illegal and harmful Internet content.

The Internet Villain Award was won by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for failing to take the protection of people’s personal data seriously and highlighting bad practice in protecting data by losing computer disks containing confidential details of 25 million child benefit recipients.

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The finalists under Best Consumer Broadband category:
Entanet
NewNet
Seriously Internet
Virgin Media
Waitrose

The finalists under Best Consumer ISP category:
Virgin Media
Orange
Tiscali
BT
PlusNet

The finalists under Best Business Broadband category:
Claranet
Datanet
Lumison
NewNet
PlusNet

The finalists under Best Business ISP category:
Claranet
Datanet
Eclipse
Entanet
Plusnet

The finalists under Best Wireless ISP category:
BOZII
Kijoma
South West Internet
T-Mobile
Vodafone

Among the individuals who have been nominated for internet hero awards, Derek Wyatt MP and Peter Robbins OBE QPM, Chief Executive, IWF are included. While the former finds his place ‘for a decade of support promoting the Internet in the UK Parliament as chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group since 1997’, the latter has been nominated ‘for his continued leadership of the IWF and approach to fostering extensive partnerships with the Internet industry, the government and law enforcement agencies to tackle illegal online content.’

Facebook, the popular P2P site has been chosen as a nominee for internet hero award for respecting peoples’ browsing privacy by retracting the Beacon service, a system which automatically records user’s online spending habits, by making it an opt-in not opt-out service.’

Interestingly, ISPA nominates BT Wholesale in the internet villain category for changing the whole engineering plan for 21CN only six months before the launch date,’ and David Cameron MP  for ‘buddying up with the music industry and trying to appeal to a younger audience.’

This year’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Award which will honour an individual or organisation that has contributed to the fight against child abuse content has also announced the nominees that include Brightfilter.

Brightfilter has been nominated for providing filter to protect their customers from ‘accidentally stumbling across indecent images of children.’

ISPA also awards the ISPs in 14 different categories such as ‘best consumer ISP’ ‘best wireless ISP’, ‘best business broadband ISP’ etc.