New research suggests that China has now overtaken the US as having the most people online. This trend is only going to continue - as internet penetration stands at 19% in China (71% in USA).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7528396.stm
Monday, 28 July 2008
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Piracy Regulation
The music industry has come to an agreement with ISPs to clamp down in illegal music downloading and filesharing. The government is going to hold a consultation on the issue too. Of course, illegal downloading doesn't help the ISPs either - it takes up valuable bandwidth and can slow their service down, so it seems in there interest to help regulate this.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/24/digitalmedia.piracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/24/digitalmedia.piracy
facebook libel case
The BBC reports that a man has won significant damages after someone made a fake ersonal Facebook profile of him. An example of legal regulation of the internet...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523128.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523128.stm
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