UK Government’s New Anti-Piracy Proposals Flayed by TalkTalk
Internet service provider of the United Kingdom, TalkTalk has criticised the government’s fresh anti-piracy legislation proposals citing the probability of them causing a breach of human rights legislation and privacy. The ISP also dubbed the proposals impractical. In the early part of 2009, a number of fresh measures to tackle illegal file sharing was mooted [...]
Mandelson’s War on Young Downloaders, Under Public Scrutiny
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary of the United kingdom seems to have trodden upon the spine of a badger by launching a crackdown on illegal downloaders of movie and music files over the internet. The fact that arouses distress in Mandelson’s mind is that the number of his targeted illegal downloaders equated with one in [...]
Millions of Music, Movie Downloading Teenagers to Face Mandelson Rage
An estimated seven million internet users – a good number of which are teenaged children – are facing the wrath of the business secretary of the United Kingdom, Lord Mandelson, for downloading movies and music illicitly over the internet. This targeted lot amounts to one in twelve of the UK population. More tragedy impends, as [...]
Digital Britain Fears Come True
This is indeed the anti-climax of this Digital Britain opera. Almost all the UK broadband internet enthusiasts knew the hype that existed in the initial stages of the British communications minister Lord Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain interim report. The report was in fact published and briefed with a touch of rhetoric, although at present [...]
UK Government Expects Generous Funding For Broadband
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary of Britain stated in his speech at a London government summit with Digital Britain as the predominant subject to discuss, that under the present plans of the government to set up a country wide superfast broadband network, they could not ignore the fact that a crucial technology might go begging [...]

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