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Crave Talk: ISPs upset by BBC iPlayer hogging bandwidth

Crave Unless you've been offline due to a lack of available bandwidth, you'll probably have noticed that ISPs are kicking up a stink because the BBC's iPlayer is consuming bandwidth on their networks. Adding more costs money, and the cheaper ISPs have...

Tags: bbc, services, bandwidth, limit

14 August 2007, 11:16 > More matches in Crave

ISPs versus the zombies

News ISPs allow these machines to communicate with the rest of the world. In the next few months, ISPs in the US will begin receiving reports on the zombies, or PCs open to control by hackers, that lurk on their networks.

20 July 2005, 9:49 > More matches in News

ISPs 'badly needed' to fight piracy

News The music industry is calling for governments and Internet services providers (ISPs) to do more in the fight against digital music piracy. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is proposing that ISPs should be obliged to...

Tags: cent, digital music, industry, sales

28 January 2008, 9:30 > More matches in News

ISPs reject calls for music tariffs

News Proposals to introduce charges for ISPs were handed to a government think tank on intellectual property last week. ISPs bear no liability for illegal file-sharing as the content is not hosted on their servers.

17 July 2006, 9:25 > More matches in News

Crave Talk: Channel 4's 4oD hamstrung by UK ISPs

Crave ISPs are wise to how many people use P2P services and they're also aware that the vast majority of people use them to illegally download content such as music and movies. In an attempt to restrict how much illegal sharing can be done on their...

Tags: broadband, demand, connection, downloading

22 May 2007, 9:50 > More matches in Crave

UK ISPs fight file-sharing laws

News The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. Malcolm Wicks, the business, enterprise and regulatory reform minister, told Parliament that government had to recognise...

Tags: industry, sharing, file sharing, government

19 June 2008, 8:43 > More matches in News

Government wins: Major UK ISPs forced to fight piracy for BPI

Crave In what the British Phonographic Industry is calling a 'ground-breaking' agreement, the six largest ISPs in the UK are to send hundreds of thousands of letters to their customers who have been reported by the BPI to be illegally sharing music over...

Tags: sharing, identify, letters, industry

24 July 2008, 9:44 > More matches in Crave

Music industry wants ISPs to stop pirates

News The music industry is calling for ISPs to cut off serious copyright offenders as part of its offensive on digital music piracy. The annual digital music report from music industry body IFPI said ISPs have been "very slow to help" the industry crack...

19 January 2007, 9:26 > More matches in News

UK ISPs must give up customer details

News BT, NTL, Telewest and Tiscali are among the ISPs named in the court order. The High Court has ordered ten UK Internet service providers to hand over information of 150 customers accused of illegally sharing and downloading desktop software on the Web.

1 February 2006, 9:11 > More matches in News

UK's fastest broadband ISPs revealed

News Internet benchmarking company Epitiro monitored the ADSL broadband services from the UK's leading consumer ISPs by connecting to the services from ten locations including Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Manchester, from April...

18 July 2006, 10:29 > More matches in News

MP demands ISPs declare child porn blocks

News Speaking to CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com, she said the reading had gone "very well" and hopes it will set in motion a pressure campaign to force the hands of ISPs to state whether they block sites with child pornography, which is illegal.

27 October 2005, 9:45 > More matches in News

BBC backs 'Broadband Charter' for ISPs

News In a posting on the BBC blog Highfield, the corporation's director of future media and technology, said: "I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content providers. Other ISPs said they were less concerned, although Ofcom has admitted...

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, providers, bbc

7 April 2008, 9:42 > More matches in News

ISPs reject uSwitch 'unfairness' claims

News ISPs have denied claims their fair usage policies could see broadband customers unfairly treated. Switching Web site uSwitch has published research suggesting some broadband customers are being misled about what 'unlimited' services really are and...

14 March 2007, 10:12 > More matches in News

Amnesty: ISPs must guard free speech

News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on Internet service providers to do more to protect free speech online. Speaking at the annual awards dinner held last week by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), Amnesty's...

20 February 2007, 8:00 > More matches in News

Crave Talk: Which 'free' broadband ISP is best?

Crave There's been a flurry of Internet service providers (ISPs) offering 'free' broadband over recent months. So-called free broadband ISPs aren't actually free. More ISPs are likely to follow suit, but in the meantime we thought we'd look into which of...

Tags: plan, package, international, mobile phone

10 August 2006, 12:00 > More matches in Crave