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Sony and the EC vie for Internet Villain award

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by minstrel, Dec 13, 2005.

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    Sony and the EC vie for Internet Villain award
    December 13, 2005
    Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK

    Sony BMG's practice of installing dangerous software on customers' PCs has won it a nomination for the ISPA Internet Villain award alongside the EC, Russia and the UK presidency of the EU

    Nominations for the top five Internet heroes and villains of 2005 were announced on Tuesday by ISPA, the Internet Services Providers' Association.

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    Sony BMG won its place in the shortlist for compromising the security of its customers' PCs with its copyright-protecting rootkit technology. The EC meanwhile got itsname on the list "for its inability to get through one year without producing yet another piece of intellectual property legislation."

    Russia and the UK presidency of the European Union were also nominated as villains. Russia was pulled up "for failing to deal with illegal websites and online abuse hosted within its borders," while the UK presidency of the EU was attacked "for seeking EU wide data retention laws which will force ISPs and telcos to retain more data for longer without proper impact assessment."

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    Vivane Reding, an EU Commissioner, was nominated for a villain award "for the revision of the TV without Frontiers Directive which threatens ISPs by extending the scope of broadcasting regulation to content delivered via the Internet, in a market which is not yet fully developed." [/quote]

    ...more including nominations for Internet Heroes here.
     
    minstrel, Dec 13, 2005 IP