The most interesting piece to me is the bit about infringements of
copyright. I totally agree that rightsholders need to protect their
work, as covered in the report, but considering some law firms are
already completely abusing the legal system as is to go after people on
very flimsy evidence and no warning (see www.beingthreatened.com ), i'm
worried that people are going to get court action when totally innocent.
Especially going by the pornographic titles discussed around the web,
such action appears to be profiteering through speculative invoicing,
and the digital britain report does little to counter this kind of
action. Indeed for alleged repeat offenders it'd encourage and aide it.
Quite frankly the report seems very short sighted to me, there are a few
encouraging bits about companies needing to look at new business models,
but it all seems rather unbalanced towards business rather than
individual consumers. It seems mostly to be a current situation report
mostly encouraging the status quo for a lot of people in the UK.
And as for 2mbits for a target... perhaps for the most rural areas, and
I can understand not wanting to create a two tier net (although...
hyprocrisy on the net neutrality front!), but surely for built up areas
a target of 50-100 mbps would be a lot more ambitious an aim?! On the
phone tax report I'm guessing people are likely to be polarised, either
not wanting to pay extra, or happy to pay but not happy with the targets.
Need to have a bit of a reread to get some of the finer points, but my
current opinion would probably rate as 'could do better'!
Stephen
Ian Forrester wrote:
The Final Digital Britain Report
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx
So what do people think? Time to leave the country or dig a hole and stick our
heads into it?
Cheers,
Ian Forrester
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