Tag: Digital Economy Act
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Julian Huppert’s “One-Speed Internet”
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Lib Dems are appealing to the vital online pirate vote at this year’s party conference, putting the membership on collision course with LibDem ministers in the coalition government. In a new IT policy paper called “Preparing The Ground”, a team of party activists led by Cambridge MP Julian Huppert calls for the Digital Economy Act…
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How the photographers won, while digital rights failed
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How did the music business end up with a triumph with the new Digital Economy Act? How did photographers, whose resources were one laptop and some old fashioned persuasion, carry an unlikely and famous victory? How did the digital rights campaigners fail so badly? Back in January, a senior music business figure explained to me…
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TalkTalk, ORG see cash from Mandybill chaos
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Never let the facts, or taste, get in the way of a marketing campaign, we say. TalkTalk boldly promised today to fight disconnection requests in court, at least until after the election. Carphone Warehouse strategy director Andrew Heaney made the pledge on his blog. The fact that ISPs don’t get any disconnection requests, and if…