The heavily lobbied Digital Economy Bill, part of Gordon Brown’s Digital Britain strategy, has been powered through Parliament in the annual wash up. Perhaps it has been intentionally kept below the radar due to the immense opposition to it, although one could ask whether MPs even knew about it given the disgracefully low turnout. The [...more]
Apr 082010
I’ve spoken in the past about Gordon Brown’s so called Digital Britain, which to summarise briefly is a collection of legislative powers that will be implemented with the intention of reducing file sharing on the internet. Despite the Digital Britain report being authored by Lord Carter it is The Prince of Darkness, Lord Mandelson, that [...more]
Aug 282009
This is a continuation of my previous trials and tribulations with Virgin Media’s business arm in relation to a simple query. I spoke to a bird called Gemma at Virgin Media a month ago and based on the fact we’d been paying £100 per month too much on our contract with them for 4 or [...more]
Aug 272009
It turns out there may have been something behind the recent and sudden shift in timescale for the Government’s proposed anti-file sharing measures. I may be miles behind on this given that the Sunday Times reported it a few weeks ago, but it appears on the face of it that Handy Mandy is behind it [...more]
Aug 262009
Today it seems our illustrious Government have decided to bring forward proposed legislation to block file sharing protocols on the internet. Previously scheduled to come in in 2012, there is now some kind of urgency to get the laws in place. No, I’ve no idea why either, but I’m sure large amounts of cash were [...more]
Jul 272009
I’ve just had the misfortune of phoning Virgin Media. Actually technically it was NTL Telewest business, but it’s all the same thing now, leasing the name from that ginger bearded attention seeker. After all my rants and raves about how I hate this company, I guess it makes me a hypocrite for having Virgin Media [...more]
Jul 262009
More ISP madness and lobby group loving! I’ve just read on TorrentFreak that another UK ISP, Karoo, has been disconnecting users on request of third parties such as the BPI. I’d not heard of Karoo before, but it is owned and operated by Kingston Communications in the Hull area. Kingston is, if I recall, run [...more]
Jul 122009
If you could get away with committing an offence knowing that from the point of view of the authorities someone else did it, would you? I opened my netbook today and decided to search for wifi access points within the vicinity of my home and discovered a total of 14 unique networks including my own. [...more]