... huh.
So I guess there's not much in the way of internet censorship news going on, I wonder what happened to
"Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt received Ofcom's Code of Practice last December, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport tells us. The Code is the first step in implementing the Act and defines obligations for ISPs and copyright-holders for the year-long monitoring period proposed by the Act - during which letters will be sent out, and their effects measured.
Ofcom delivered the obligations Code pretty much on time, as expected, after six months. Since then Hunt has been in possession of the Code, but declined to approve it - as the DEA says he must. Has he lost it? Has it fallen down the back of a radiator?
'No precise date has been set for the publication of the code," a DCMS spokesperson told us. 'We continue to work with Ofcom and the code will be published as soon as possible.'" -- Source
Huh. Well, that's pretty cool, but that's just a delay, it's not like the EU courts suddenly have precedent against anything like tha
"Belgian ISP Scarlet should not have to filter copyright-infringing traffic from its service because to do so would invade users' privacy, an advisor to the EU's top court has said.
Scarlet had been ordered by a Belgian court to filter traffic that infringed copyrights belonging to members of artists' rights agency Sabam (Société belge des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs).
Pedro Cruz Villalón, an advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said that such a system would violate rights guaranteed under EU law in an opinion published today." -- Source
... huh!
(sobrique: The cash is paid in.)
"Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt received Ofcom's Code of Practice last December, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport tells us. The Code is the first step in implementing the Act and defines obligations for ISPs and copyright-holders for the year-long monitoring period proposed by the Act - during which letters will be sent out, and their effects measured.
Ofcom delivered the obligations Code pretty much on time, as expected, after six months. Since then Hunt has been in possession of the Code, but declined to approve it - as the DEA says he must. Has he lost it? Has it fallen down the back of a radiator?
'No precise date has been set for the publication of the code," a DCMS spokesperson told us. 'We continue to work with Ofcom and the code will be published as soon as possible.'" -- Source
Huh. Well, that's pretty cool, but that's just a delay, it's not like the EU courts suddenly have precedent against anything like tha
"Belgian ISP Scarlet should not have to filter copyright-infringing traffic from its service because to do so would invade users' privacy, an advisor to the EU's top court has said.
Scarlet had been ordered by a Belgian court to filter traffic that infringed copyrights belonging to members of artists' rights agency Sabam (Société belge des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs).
Pedro Cruz Villalón, an advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said that such a system would violate rights guaranteed under EU law in an opinion published today." -- Source
... huh!
(sobrique: The cash is paid in.)