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General Category => Blog => Topic started by: kat on June 28, 2012, 03:42:33 PM
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Don't have time at the moment to write anything up on this other than to post the resulting report OfCom (http://www.ofcom.org.uk) came up with as part of their overall mulling over of the requirements of the Digital Economy Act 2010 with respect to file sharing, pirating and prosecution thereof/in (for more info in the DEA itself see here (http://www.katsbits.com/smforum/index.php?topic=374.0)).
- Notice of Ofcom’s proposal to make by order a code for regulating the initial obligations (http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/infringement-notice/)
- Summery - Online Infringement of Copyright and the Digital Economy Act 2010 (http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/infringement-notice/summary)
- Consultation Document (full print version) (http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/online-notice/summary/notice.pdf) [PDF]
Additional Reading
- PCPro - Ofcom's DEA plans "already out of date" (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/375502/ofcoms-dea-plans-already-out-of-date)
- MCV - Ofcom outlines UK's "three strikes" net policy (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ofcom-outlines-uk-s-three-strikes-net-policy/098517)
- DailyMail - Guilty until proven innocent: Families will have to pay £20 to show they DIDN'T illegally download music under new law (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165004/Illegal-downloading-Families-illegally-download-music-movies-online-face-court-action-copyright-theft.html)