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BEREC publishes draft net neutrality guidelines

29 October 2011 | Mark Weston

The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published draft guidelines on how end users are to be informed about the way their Internet service is managed within the European...

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Confusion between Gaga and Goo Goo results in injunction – Ate My Heart v Mind Candy, High Court

14 October 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Ate My Heart has succeeded in obtaining a High Court injunction to stop Mind Candy from promoting a song on YouTube and iTunes featuring the fictional character Lady Goo Goo. Ate My Heart was the company...

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Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

26 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Performing Rights Society for Music has called on search engines to offer a traffic light service under which Internet users could see whether a music site they were going to was supporting legitimately...

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Digital Economy Act judicial review challenge fails – R (on the application of BT) v BIS, High Court

28 April 2011 | Paul Gershlick

BT and TalkTalk have failed in their bid to get the Digital Economy Act judicially reviewed. The Act was rushed through just before the last Parliament broke up prior to last year’s General Election...

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“App Store” v “Appstore” – Apple sues Amazon in US

25 March 2011 | Mark Weston

Apple has filed proceedings against Amazon in the federal court for the Northern District of California in the US for choosing to call its marketplace for mobile applications the “Amazon Appstore”....

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Piracy in these shores on the up

14 December 2010 | Mark Weston

An estimated 8 million people in the UK continue to download music illegally. That’s the finding of a survey by BPI, the trade organisation for the UK record music industry. The survey also estimated...

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US Court not in a Sharing Mood

29 October 2010 | Mark Weston

LimeWire, one of the Internet’s largest peer-to-peer file-sharing services, has been effectively shut down following an injunction issued by a district court in New York. LimeWire is obliged to disable...

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Could law firm sending out mass letters for copyright infringement be first to incur new £500,000 fines for serious data protection breaches?…

7 October 2010 | Mark Weston

ACS:Law may be the first business to incur the recently introduced expanded fines of up to £500,000. The controversial law firm has made its name by sending out thousands of letters to alleged peer-to-peer...

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Ofcom introduces new code of practice to enable consumers to transfer ISP without penalty if actual Internet access speeds are significantly less than the advertised speeds

10 August 2010 | Mark Weston

Ofcom – the communications regulator – has introduced a new code of practice that gives consumers the right to transfer away from an Internet service provider without penalty if the Internet access...

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Ireland starts process that could see file-sharers cut off from Internet

28 May 2010 | Mark Weston

Ireland has started a process that could see illegal peer-to-peer file-sharers cut off from using the Internet. Eircom, the Irish Internet service provider with 40% of the Irish market, has started writing...

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Latest news and views tagged download

BEREC publishes draft net neutrality guidelines

Confusion between Gaga and Goo Goo results in injunction – Ate My Heart v Mind Candy, High Court

Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

Digital Economy Act judicial review challenge fails – R (on the application of BT) v BIS, High Court

“App Store” v “Appstore” – Apple sues Amazon in US

Piracy in these shores on the up

US Court not in a Sharing Mood

Could law firm sending out mass letters for copyright infringement be first to incur new £500,000 fines for serious data protection breaches?…

Ofcom introduces new code of practice to enable consumers to transfer ISP without penalty if actual Internet access speeds are significantly less than the advertised speeds

Ireland starts process that could see file-sharers cut off from Internet

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