It was never going to be easy creating a policy framework to ensure the viability of Big Media’s digital media businesses – but now the sceptical voices, responding to the government’s proposal to consider disconnecting freeloaders as a last resort, are growing louder…
— Youngsters want filesharing legalised: 55 percent of those aged 16-24 say sharing copyrighted music and film should be legal, says Ofcom’s UK adults media literacy survey (methodology: 812 interviews). Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? They are the most likely to file-share.
— Disconnection without hearing opposed: 68 percent of people want a court hearing to preface any disconnection from their ISP, according to a YouGov poll for the Open Rights Group, which opposes disconnections, aired on Guardian.co.uk (methodology: online poll of 1,967 adults).
— MPs group fighting Mandelson: The All-Party Parliamentary Communications group (apComms) is opposing the business minister’s proposal that disconnection be a last resort (here’s our full report): “Much of the problem with illegal sharing of copyrighted material has been caused by the rightsholders, and the music industry in particular, being far too slow in getting their act together and making popular legal alternatives.”
— C4 ed also opposes: C4 education commissioning editor Alice Taylor (on Creative Scotland site Perspectives: “We must not let these dying behemoths take away someone