Category: Regulation

With the latest court ruling, it seems likely that The Pirate Bay will be the next website to be the subject of a blocking order.

The social networking site NetLog has won an European Court case saying that it cannot be obliged to install a filtering system that actively searches for copyright infringing material.

Further evidence that no new laws are needed to actually get websites blocked is evident today, with Newzbin now to be blocked by TalkTalk.

All forms of media over the last few hundred years have gone through a birthing process, that eventually ends up it being bound up in lots of legal jargon, and the internet is no different.

The original Migration Authorisation Code system worked well when most people used a single wholesaler, but the technology mix for telephone and broadband across the UK means that an improved system is overdue.

The popularity of LLU continues to grow, adding almost half a million lines since May 2011 to reach 8,000,200 lines at the end January 2012.

Ofcom has published what is one of the closest things to a baseline on which the various BDUK projects can be judged, with a local authority speed and availability map of the United Kingdom.

The average speed in the UK for broadband has risen some 0.8 Mbps to 7.6 Mbps at the end of November 2011 according to Ofcom research.

Megaupload was just one of a number of web based file sharing websites, but it is the latest casualty in the way being waged to protect perceived loses by the media industry.

Local authorities around the UK that have not submitted their broadband plan for access to BDUK funds have just six weeks to get their paperwork in order and the plan lodged with the BDUK.