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The government's pursuit of illegal filesharers has put it in conflict with ISPs and the creative industries "I think there's a lot of lies being told, and this was just one of them." That uncharitable assessment by a source...
Stephen Timms and Ed Richards in front of Parliament inquiry Tuesday 24 November 2009 14:36:23 by Andrew Ferguson Having met earlier in November 2009 the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee has heard further evidence...
Scheme helps businesses defer £4bn tax More than 150,000 businesses have been helped by a Government scheme launched a year ago today to enable them to defer tax payments, new figures showed. The Treasury said £4bn in tax had...
Ordnance Survey mapping data should be free from April 2010. Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. "Making all that data available doesn't make much sense...
Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industries Read the government's statement on the bill Read the digital economy bill Stephen Timms, the Treasury...
Simon Gompertz looks at ways that you can take advantage of the VAT cut. Shoppers have given a muted response to the lower rate of VAT, although most want it extended, a BBC poll has found. Some 23% of people said they had...
Companies offering online storage know that they can be used to store illicit files. But they don't need extra powers to root them out. The first question is simply: why? What's wrong with the existing copyright laws, and the...
As we're so fond of saying, technology moves fast, and law moves slowly. What we say far less often is that law should move slowly. It is not a sign of weakness to deliberate carefully about laws that affect millions of...
Quote--- The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment...
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:42 (GMT) Christians in the UK have been warned that to place their vote on the ballot sheet for one of the main political parties is a “wasted vote”. The Rev George Hargreaves, leader of...
