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July 9, 2010  5:54 AM

BT and Talk Talk To Challenge Digital Economy Act



Posted by: Matt Mather
Censorship, Digital Economy, File Sharing, News

The two UK ISPs want the High Court to clarify the legality of the act before it’s implemented. Both ISPs (and many others for that matter) believe the act was rushed through in a very “cloak and dagger” fashion just before UK Parliament was dissolved, the period referred to as “wash...

June 3, 2010  12:22 PM

IP Traffic Set To Quadruple By 2014



Posted by: Matt Mather
3DTV, Broadband, File Sharing, Internet, IP, IPTV, Video

Today Cisco announced the results of the annual VNI (Visual Network Index) forecast covering 2009 to 2014. The report projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014.  This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the...


June 2, 2010  12:59 PM

Digital Economy Act Farce, An Introduction



Posted by: Matt Mather
Digital Economy, File Sharing, Internet

I hope this topic doesn't become too tiresome for readers of my blog but there is a real danger it could be and of that I am well aware, I will promise though that I will try not to devote too much time to this subject and risk alienating what I hope is a growing audience. This, being the Act,...


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