London Wants To Offer Full WiFi Coverage... But How Will That Work With The Digital Economy Act?
from the questions... dept
Rik was the first of a few of you to send in the news that the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is claiming that London will be fully covered by WiFi in time for the 2012 Olympic games. Of course, considering that the UK Parliament just passed the Digital Economy Act, which calls for carefully limiting access to the internet for people accused (not convicted) of infringement online, it makes you wonder how that's going to work. Even if Ofcom has said that the DEA rules won't initially apply to wireless providers, it does seem a bit odd to have the government offering a service like this. Once again, we're seeing how the government has these two competing issues that don't play well together: getting more broadband availability, while looking to help out the entertainment industry by kicking people off the internet at the same time. Who will be the first Olympic athlete kicked offline for downloading some music during the games?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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Way to catch pirates
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New Governement
All in all a complete mess lol
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Re: New Governement
The Lib dems were pledged to repealing it - and I suspect the Tory leadership will go along with that too...
There is likely to be a call to the public to nominate laws that they would like to see repealed
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8690882.stm
I guess the DEA will be high on the list.
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What if someone downloads copyrighted content?
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I have serious doubts about the government being able to setup a city-wide WiFi network that can handle the traffic during the Olympics. If it does work I'd bet on 28.8kbps speeds.
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Who will?
Michael Phelps. =)
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