Bond 24
Jambo vs. the internet pirates.
122 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jul 2009
I reckon this was the downfall of the case. Probably if Newzbin solely offered their automated raw or condensed usenet search facilities they would have won but the fact that they have human editors flagging, categorising and providing extra info on the files means these editors at least would have been well aware the nzb's related to copyrighted content.
I'm not siding with the MPA, I love Newzbin, but maybe in the law's eyes they took it a bit too far.
when modems were so slow and phone calls were so expensive that the fastest and cheapest way to distribute stuff was through the post. Floppies stuffed into Jiffy bags wrapped in cellotape so you could rub off the post marks and re-use, going back and forth until they fell apart.
The censorship laws in regard to film increasingly becoming irrelevant, I'm surprised it been amended in some way to also control the internet and imports to protect the markets of the big boys film industry.
The internet largely makes film classification irrelevant, especially when it comes to protecting children who are increasingly used to obtaining all their media over the net, through downloads or purchasing dvds from Amazon of wherever where you can buy unrated imports quite openly and "legally".
It only really protects children going into cinemas and stops UK independent film makers film makers from selling their DVDs within the UK without paying the BBFC. Classification is also a very convenient way to control legal domestic distribution. My guess is that the new digital economy laws are also going to used to control censorship and hence domestic market distribution before too long.
how times change. I always thought is was very odd how a company like AOL could possibly buy a long standing media giant like TW.
Plus AOL always had one of the flakiest old-school business models of what the internet should be, largely going against the basic premise of what the internet is/was. I guess that's what attracted confused investors but also killed the company as everyone else passed them by.
I could see this somewhere in the future spiralling out of control to a TV license fee type situation. A "detector van" drives around with a list of houses that haven't bought a "music download license" and knocks on you door demanding you buy a license or let them search your house to establish that you haven't got a computer and internet connection. Everyone not paying will be guilty until proven innocent.
I've often questioned why Sky doesn't more aggressively pursue LLUing exchanges outside of Virgin's network, the larger of the rural exchanges and such, they could dominate the TV/BB/Phone triple offering in those areas. But then if Sky mainly think of broadband as a way to compete against Virgin and only really make money off the TV subscriptions, I guess that'd be why, they already have domination in areas outside of Virgins network.