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UPD B4RN Rural Broadband Project Hit by Serious Criminal Theft in Lancashire

10th December, 2013 (25 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband 4 Rural North) project in Lancashire (England) could face delays to the roll-out of their 1Gbps capable community-built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband network after thieves broke into one of their trailers and made off with critical equipment. Luckily locals have pulled together to help keep the work on track.

UPDATE High Court Finds BT Infringes on ASSIA DSL Management Patent

3rd December, 2013 (0 Comments)

The High Court of Justice in London has ruled that BT infringes upon one of ASSIA’s patents for DSL management technologies, which the telecoms operator allegedly uses as part of their national FTTC (VDSL) based Next Generation Access (NGA) network deployment.

BT Employee and Copper Telecoms Thieves Jailed After UK Police Sting

2nd December, 2013 (3 Comments)

The Snaresbrook Crown Court has sentenced a corrupt former BT employee and members of a criminal gang to a total of over 32 years in jail after they were found to have colluded over the theft and damage of vital copper broadband and phone cable, which cost the telecoms operator a total of £279,635.00.

EU Ruling Could Extend Internet Piracy Website Blocking to All ISPs

27th November, 2013 (10 Comments)

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) could soon require all Internet Service Providers (ISP) across the EU to block their customers from being able to view websites that have been found to infringe copyright (piracy), which follows a new opinion from the courts Advocate General (Pedro Cruz Villalón).

ISP Zen Internet Calls on UK Government to Tackle Broadband Noise

26th November, 2013 (39 Comments)

Broadband provider Zen Internet has today called upon the Government to get tough on the causes of Repetitive Electric Impulse Noise (REIN), which references a type of electrical interference that can disrupt the performance and stability of consumer broadband services (e.g. ADSL and FTTC lines).

Big UK ISPs Set to Block SolarMovie and Tubeplus Piracy Websites

13th November, 2013 (9 Comments)

The EMEA division of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has successfully won fresh court orders from the High Court in London that will require all of the United Kingdom’s six biggest broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing the SolarMovie and Tubeplus websites over “illegal” Internet streaming content.

UPDATE2 Big UK ISPs Set to Block 21 Internet Piracy Websites on Wednesday

29th October, 2013 (31 Comments)

A leaked report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revealed a raft of new Internet piracy facilitating websites that are to be blocked by six of the United Kingdom’s largest broadband ISPs, most of which could be censored as early as tomorrow (30th October 2013).

MPs Call on UK Government to Implement ISP Piracy Warning Letters ASAP

27th September, 2013 (6 Comments)

A new report from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee has taken a broadly pro-enforcement line on tackling Internet copyright infringement (piracy) and called for the much-delayed 2010 Digital Economy Act (DEAct) system of Warning Letters from broadband ISPs to be implemented at “far greater speed” than planned.

Police Sting Nails Scrapyard Boss for Buying Stolen BT Copper Cable

23rd September, 2013 (2 Comments)

The boss of Albert Haigh and Son Ltd. scrapyard in Huddersfield (West Yorkshire, England), Paul Ellis (aged 42), has been put in the slammer for 14 months after a Police sting operation successfully sold him stolen BT copper telecoms cable on nine separate occasions.

Research Paper Claims UK ISP Warning Letters Will Not Cut Internet Piracy

10th September, 2013 (0 Comments)

A new research paper has warned that the UK’s controversial anti-piracy tackling Digital Economy Act (DEAct), which aims to slash Internet piracy by adopting a “three-strikes” style graduated response system of warning letters and punishment for repeat offenders (e.g. suspension of your broadband service), will not succeed in reducing copyright infringement.

Nominet Moot BAN on Swearing and Bad Language in UK Internet Domains

10th September, 2013 (11 Comments)

Nominet, which manages the registry of .uk Internet domain names, has at the behest of the government launched a review of its registration policy for new website domain names that will examine whether or not it should ban certain words and expressions (e.g. swearing).

Open Rights Group UK Pushes for ISP Website Blocking Orders to be Public

15th August, 2013 (8 Comments)

The Open Rights Group has applied to have a procedural judge (a ‘Master’) in the UK High Court investigate their request for the court orders (injunctions), those related to website blocking, to be made public. Rights Holders use these when forcing big ISPs to censor specific websites (e.g. Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents).

Sky and Other UK ISPs Finally Fix Crystal Palace FC and RadioTimes Block

15th August, 2013 (7 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband (plus those of many other UK ISPs) should now be able to access the Radio Times, Crystal Palace FC, Taylor Swift and over 100 other legitimate websites after providers resolved a problem in their court-ordered internet censorship system that occurred because Rights Holders failed to check the data.

UPD4 EZTV Cause Website Blocking Fail for UK Sky Broadband ISP Users

10th August, 2013 (11 Comments)

Some Sky Broadband users were this week left frustrated after the ISP began sporadically blocking TorrentFreak, a well-recognised news source for the BitTorrent and P2P community. But the cause appears to have been a deliberate manipulation by one of the websites that Sky is required to block, which has highlighted the danger of overblocking.

BT and Vodafone Helped GHCQ Snoop on Transatlantic Fibre Optic Cables

3rd August, 2013 (24 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (codename “Remedy“) and Vodafone (codename “Gerontic“) are among several major telecoms operators that have been named by former NSA employee, Edward Snowden, as helping the UK Government’s Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to snoop on more than 200 of the world’s transatlantic fibre optic cable links.

UPDATE Court Forces Big UK ISPs to Block EZTV and Yify-Torrents Websites

23rd July, 2013 (12 Comments)

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Motion Picture Association (MPA) have won yet another court case that will force all of the country’s largest broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing EZTV and Yify-Torrents, which were both found to be facilitating internet copyright infringement (piracy).

Leaked EU Laws and Police Raid on ISPs Raise Net Neutrality Concerns

15th July, 2013 (0 Comments)

The European Commission’s recent promise to “guarantee” Net Neutrality by ensuring that broadband ISPs and mobile operators give citizens access to the full and open internet, “without any blocking or throttling of competing services” (here), has been called into question after a draft of the new regulation was leaked.