So, Lord Carter today will be announcing a £3billion “Digital Britain” project for delivering broadband internet to every home in the UK as well as plans for “combatting” piracy. Their benchmark for bandwidth is 2Mbit which, yes, compared to dialup is fast but compared to all broadband connections in the UK at the moment is [...more]
Jun 162009
Jul 282008
Once again the upper echelons of big business appear to be pushing through their own agendas in the House of Commons. No, it’s not cash for questions or cash for peerages this time. No, following on from my last blog post, it’s the British Phonographic Industry again with its cash for laws. This self appointed, [...more]
Mar 282008
That idiot Dr Tanya Byron has been self publicising again: today she came out with yet more revelations about video game censorship. She reckons that games should be labelled as films currently are, i.e. Universal, PG, 15, 18 and so on. Wow. If she had a clue about the subject matter she would realise that [...more]