Digital Economy Act’s copyright provisions should be repealed, Lib Dem policy proposal says: “Copyright laws set out in the Digital Economy Act (DEA) are ‘deeply flawed and unworkable’ and should be abolished, a Liberal Democrat…
Domain Seizures Do Not Violate Free Speech, U.S. Court Rules: “ A U.S. federal court has ruled that the domain seizure of sports streaming site Rojadirecta does not violate the First Amendment, and has refused…
Site Blocking: What the UK Government would prefer you not to see: “ It’s well known that internet blocking is easy to circumvent. Ofcom in today’s report ‘Site Blocking’ to reduce online copyright infringement admits…
UK Govt. Censors Concerns of Erroneous Piracy Allegations: “ Yesterday the UK government announced that following a report from regulator OFCOM, plans to block alleged copyright-infringing websites would be dropped. However, there was a second…
New website blocking regulations not on the agenda, Government says: “The Government has sidetracked plans to create new website blocking laws following a recommendation from the UK’s telecoms regulator.“ (Via OUT-LAW News.)
Individuals will have to pay to contest copyright infringement warnings, Government says: “Internet users who risk being blacklisted as illegal file-sharers will have to pay £20 to appeal against warning letters they receive about their…
Government scraps plan to block illegal filesharing websites | guardian.co.uk Business secretary Vince Cable says site blocking is too cumbersome and unworkable, and work is being done on other ways to tackle online copyright infringement…
Vince Cable: government plans to block illegal filesharing sites unworkable Mark Sweney and Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 August 2011 14.02 BST Vince Cable, the business secretary, will say on Wednesday that government plans to…
England and Wales: blocking website sets bad international precedent · Article 19 ARTICLE 19: 01 Aug 2011 The High Court’s decision requiring British Telecom to block access to the file-indexing website, Newzbin.com sets a worrying…