Posts by ChrisTMarsden

Epic Fail: How the photographers won, while digital rights failed

Post appears - hurrah!

Thanks for approving my post several hours after I posted, at the same time as attacking it - but by then I'd gone out to play. Next time we can have a real-time chat?

I don't think there's much doubt that a good Clause 17 reform in the Lords would have stuck, as the Tories would have probably played ball if it made any sense - but that's not to say the Clause 43 folks didn't do a much better lobbying job. Frankly, I'm with Austin Mitchell on this one, a plague on everybody's houses.

Tories supported photographers not pirates

Lets be specific - the ONLY chance for ORG to influence the debate would have been a sensible amendment in Committee in the Lords - where the LibDem peers shoved through something rather different that led to their own party disowning them on that policy.

Once it got to the Commons, why would the Tory front bench bother to annoy the copyright industry (Murdoch before an Election). Kids aren't supposed to vote.

And it will be interesting to see whether Twitterati will go out and vote LibDem or prefer to sit on the sidelines sulking.

Now get on your bikes and vote for the party that has promised to repeal Clause 17-18!

Commissioner pledges protection for net neutrality

Nothing to see here so far....

She's not said anything of note in this speech - and could hardly be expected to ahead of the consultation: see my blog on 'neelie-kroes-public-consultation'.

Paris, because she's got one leg in one camp and one in the other....

Why you subsidize Google's Soviet-style Net

Soviet-style? But there ARE no goodies

Its always better to allow comments on a story - and good that AndrewO is replying. I still scratch my tiny lawyer's head and don't see how a great headline really meets the story - or that Scott Cleland's stat is really a good starting point...but in any case I will ask Those That Know to help me understand.

I certainly quite agree that there are Roundheads and Cavaliers but no real goodies or necessarily baddies (though Vodafone's Sicilian newspaper distributor is trying) - but I digress for 300 pages here: Marsden (2010) Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution http://bit.ly/buQqi7 (PDF)