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Filtering round up: French filtering, Ireland backs off, UK sidesteps?
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| Meanwhile in a surprising twist, Eirecom have
| apparently pulled out of the negotiated
| settlement they reached in January 2009 to
| disconnect subscribers "repeatedly" using P2P
| for (alleged) illicit downloading. This was
| the result of the Irish court case brought
| against them by various parts of the music
| industry for hosting illegal downloads, and
| appeared to open up a route to "voluntary"
| notice and disconnection schemes on the part
| of the ISP industry; a worrying trend both for
| advocates of free speech, privacy, due
| process, ISP immunity and net neutrality.
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http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2010/02/filtering-round-up-french-filtering.html
UK Music complains to BBC over report on Digital Economy Bill
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| UK Music has filed a formal complaint to the
| BBC over what it believes is a breach of the
| corporation's editorial guidelines on accuracy
| and impartiality. The complaint relates to an
| an edition of The Culture Show broadcast on
| BBC2 on 4 February, 2010, which featured a
| segment on the Digital Economy Bill (DEB),
| which includes measures on clamping down on
| illegal filesharing.
|
| The umbrella organisation that promotes the
| interests of Britain's music industry claimed
| the programme-makers misrepresented certain
| facts relating to the bill that had been
| presented to them in advance. In a letter to
| the editor of the show, UK Music stated that
| this resulted in a broadcast it believes was
| not only grossly misleading and inaccurate,
| but also misinformed the audience in a biased
| and prejudicial manner.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/feb/19/digital-media-bbc
BBC iplayer DRM raises its head again: now for the iphone
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| But with iplayer, and other DRM systems, you
| are point blank breaking the law if you take
| that speech and use it â even though you wish
| to exercise your right to free speech,
| supposedly guaranteed in copyright law. This
| is because it is also illegal to get round
| copy restriction systems.
|
| Thatâs right. You must break the law to use
| your legal rights. Thatâs very wrong. In a
| world full of bloggers, where free speech is
| genuinely being exercised publicly by
| thousands of individuals, these rights really
| matter.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/bbc-iplayer-drm-raises-its-head-again
[BBC presenter] Ray Gosling had already told friends about killing his former lover
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/17/ray-gosling-killing-friends-knew
Newspaper publishers lean on the BBC Trust
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| THE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION (NPA),
| which is adopting a King Canute strategy
| against new technology, is trying to stop the
| BBC from making its content available on
| mobile phones.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1592704/newspaper-publishers-lean-bbc-trust
Recent:
Why did Ofcom back down over DRM at the BBC?
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| Back before the Christmas break, it looked
| like Ofcom was ready to do its duty and
| stop the BBC from adding digital rights
| management technology to its high-
| definition broadcasts. After all, DRM
| doesn't actually prevent copying â even the
| BBC agrees that the scheme it's proposed
| won't stop a determined copier, and once
| that copy is on the internet, everyone else
| will be able to get at it with a couple of
| clicks.
|
| And DRM imposes social, monetary and public
| interest costs: a DRM scheme will never be
| able to embody the flexibility built into
| the law that instructs judges to carefully
| weigh up the copyright holder's exclusive
| rights against the public's legitimate use
| of copyrighted works for personal
| archiving, format-shifting, commentary,
| education, and the other traditional uses
| that have fallen outside of the exclusive
| purview of copyright corporations to
| approve.
|
| [...]
|
| I love the Beeb, honestly I do. I am just
| as worried about charter renewal in 2016 as
| anyone in White City. But how on Earth can
| the BBC's masters believe that adding DRM
| will win over the affection of the Britons
| whose support Auntie will need during the
| next government?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/09/ofcom
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