Having now gone through Ofcom’s consultation paper on the draft Initial Obligations Code, there seems to be both good news and bad news.
As with everything else around this Act, a lot of thought has gone into the implications for consumer broadband connections. The consultation document contains several significant improvements for those types of connections. However [...]
Ofcom have just announced the anticipated consultation on the Initial Obligations Code under the Digital Economy Act 2010. This is the Code that describes how rightsholders send copyright infringement notices to ISPs, who then pass (some of) them on to their subscribers. Responses to the consultation are due by the end of July.
No doubt I’ll [...]
I’ve just sent off JANET(UK)’s response to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills consultation on how the costs incurred in implementing the first stage of the Digital Economy Act 2010 will be shared between rightsholders and ISPs. The consultation covers three sets of costs:
Costs incurred by ISPs in implementing systems to receive and forward [...]
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) published its annual report yesterday, including information on the use of the Internet to distribute indecent images of children. There is quite a lot of good news to report. These images remain a very small fraction of Internet content – fewer than 9000 dealt with all year and only around [...]