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The BBC would have to pay ISPs to deliver iPlayer traffic under the government’s new internet policy recommendations. Say bye bye to HD BBC iPlayer.
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Pirates might have let out a sigh of relief after the government said it wouldn’t force ISPs to disconnect pirates caught filesharing, but we now know why: it wants them on a government watch list instead.
ISPs won’t be forced to disconnect music pirates, according to government Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy.
in an interview with The Times, the MP said the Government had scrapped the idea of making ISPs cut off suspect P2P pirates, which Westminster was mooting as late as 2008.
President Barack Obama is still giving his inauguration speech, but the first act of his presidency has already swung into action: a new White House website, complete with a blog to help connect with the public.
Eidos’ creative director and games industry luminary, Ian Livingstone, has hit out at the government over its failure to see the potential of the UK’s games industry. Calling Labour’s attitude “madness”, Livingstone told a recent interview that Britain will lose valuable people, skills and IPs if something isn’t done to give more incentive to developers and publishers in this country.