UK Regulator Says Digital Economy Act Only Applies To Big Wireline ISPs
from the small-ISPs-about-to-get-bigger dept
UK's telco regulator Ofcom has apparently decided that the Digital Economy Act's provisions on suspending accounts of those accused of file sharing will only apply to wireline ISPs who have 400,000+ customers. I would imagine that this might create a bit of a boom in business for smaller ISPs -- though, that could be self-defeating if too many customers switch and push any particular smaller ISP over that 400,000 mark...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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The Register isn't owned by Rupert Murdoch, is it?
I also like how the entire article is apparently a registered trademark.
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Interesting...
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1 - Buy Wholesale pipe as Company A (bandwidth for 2-3 million subscribers or whatever)
2 - Build a toolkit for rapid deployment of a "small" ISP (B
3 - Deploy ISP Sell Bandwidth A->B
4 - Deploy ISP Sell Bandwidth A->B
5...
6 Profit?
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Re:
7 Sell toolkit
8 Use profit to buy Hollywood Studio/Label
9 Break into pieces and sell to stimulate Indie production
10 Rinse and Repeat...
11 Use profits from sales to buy Lobby Groups
12 Feed Lobbyists to sharks
14...?
15 Have Indie studios make shark films?
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Join ISP 1a
(rinse repeat)
Have a nice day.
(anyone else amused the initials for the act are DEA? lol)
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Re: Join ISP 1a
I assume you mean in the sense of yet another another pointless, un-winnable war against something most people accept?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8690882.stm
"Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to pledge the "biggest shake-up of our democracy" in 178 years as he expands on plans for political reform.
The Tory-Lib Dem coalition backs plans for fixed-term parliaments, more elected peers and a referendum on changing the voting system.
Mr Clegg will pledge to restore faith in politics in a speech on Wednesday.
The Lib Dem leader is also expected to call on the public to nominate laws they think should be repealed. "
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