Reding, BPI, villains of 2006
p2pnet.net news:- UK ISPs say European Commissioner Vivianne Reding is the Net’s biggest villain of the year.
She gets the Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) award for, “For foisting the most arcane set of rules yet seen for prior registration of .eu domains, requiring UK registered companies to submit legal affidavits to justify the authenticity of their business.”
Also included in the Year’s Worst Villain dishonours list, and possibly far more deserving, is the Big 4 Organized Music cartel’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry).
Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s BPI is appropriately singled out for, “applying pressure on Cable & Wireless and Tiscali to reveal the names and addresses of customers who the BPI believed to be file sharing, with poorly prepared evidence”.
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February 21st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
hey jon, i like the new way youre doing your pictures
February 21st, 2007 at 1:57 pm
You do, eh? The p2pnet cms is now really ancient and the move to a new host has meant some of the code isn’t working as it should. I used to be able to include a pic when I posted a story but for some reason, I can’t do that any more. So as a work-around, I’m sending pix to an ftp directory and linking from there, something I did but rarely before.
But I kinda like it too and I’ll probably keep on doing things this way : )
Cheers!