Category: Stories
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Are you a Nouveau-Reithian?
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How to fund a great BBC … without creating 142,000 new criminals a year Not one Hollywood studio or record label company has ever incarcerated anyone merely for not paying for media consumption. A few years ago the entertainment industry filed civil suits against individuals, but received so much criticism it stopped. Now they target…
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Our ‘digital economy’ is still a circular firing squad
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The British ISP industry has spent a small fortune of its customers’ money fighting the people who would, in a saner world, be its business partners – only to suffer a crushing defeat. On Tuesday Lord Justice Richards threw out BT and TalkTalk’s judicial review against the 2010 Digital Economy Act. Yet as trench warfare…
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Peak Oil: RIP
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The idea that seized the imaginations of the bien pensant chattering classes in the Noughties – “Peak Oil” – is no longer relevant. So says the commodities team at Citigroup, and policy-makers would be wise to examine the trends they’ve identified. “Peak Oil” is the point at which the production of conventional crude oil begins…