ISPA News 29/02/08
TV's 'Lost' Finds Its Way On To The 'Net
2nd Annual TV Over Net conference, IPTV World Forum and InternetWorld
A Welcome Crowd Increases ISPA Membership
Meet ISPA’s three newest members
ISPA In The News
File sharing and self regulation
AWARDS NEWS
Ticket sales for The ISPAs close on Wednesday
Hurry, hurry, hurry
Funk and Fun at The 2008 ISPAs
Terry Alderton and Ronnie Scott’s regular at the awards
The Mechanics of Collaborative Message Filtering
Neil Cook, VP of Technology Services EMEA, Cloudmark
A Showcase of Help for ISPs
Services promoted via The ISPAs
TV's 'Lost' Finds Its Way On To The 'Net
2nd Annual TV Over Net conference, IPTV World Forum and InternetWorld
ISPA has secured an exclusive 15 per cent discount for its members to benefit from to the 2nd Annual TV Over Net conference at the Olympia National Hall, London, on 12th March 2008 March.
Internet TV is the next big thing in media and when it finally takes off it will shake the TV industry to its core, disrupting long-established business models with significant new threats and opportunities.
The 'TV over Net' conference is dedicated to this emerging platform and will investigate the impact that broadcast-quality streaming TV and VOD over broadband will have on content and channel owners, classic Pay TV content aggregators and platform operators, the new breed of Internet-based platform providers, and of course, consumers.
The availability of hit series like 'Lost' and 'Desperate Housewives' from Disney-ABC on Apple's iTunes represents the willingness of major content owners to experiment with direct-to-home Web distribution models. For some content owners, it is a case of meeting a proven consumer demand for recorded content that is made available almost instantly to the PC and mobile players.
Please take a look here for more information and to book your tickets.
The 2008 IPTV World Forum at the Olympia National Hall, London, from the 12-14th March 2008 is also taking place.
If Internet TV doesn't press your buttons why not head down to this year's Internet World where you can network and help your business grow.
Internet World 2008 will focus on how to best capitalise on the market opportunities associated with growth in Internet industry. The event will illustrate ways you can improve your business’s performance and demonstrate the latest technologies of the industry.
Speakers at this year’s event will include BBC Worldwide’s Head of Mobile Peter Mercier, Managing Director of BBC.com Kym Niblock, Senior Vice President of MySpace.com Travis Katz, Annelies van den Belt, Head of ITV Broadband and Chris Hogg, Director of Marketing for Intel.
Please visit the Calendar page for more information on forthcoming events.
A Welcome Crowd Increases ISPA Membership
Meet ISPA’s three newest members
Three new members join ISPA this month, looking to benefit from opportunities ranging from new business prospects to meeting face to face with the politicians whose opinions can affect their business.
IDNet has over 12 years of experience providing high-performance Internet solutions for business and home office users throughout the UK. Their services include ADSL and SDSL broadband, web design and programming, secure web hosting and email provision. They join ISPA in the small members category.
Also joining in the small category is NebuAd. NebuAd is transforming the on line advertising industry by opening significant new revenue streams for ISPs. Whether you are a wireline or wireless ISP with national or regional coverage, NebuAd offers a risk-free way to achieve stronger revenue growth.
Seagate deliver advanced digital storage solutions for everyone. They design, manufacture and market hard disc drives catering for personal computer users through to large enterprise businesses. They join ISPA in the corporate membership category.
If you are not members of ISPA and you would like to find out more about the many advantages of membership your company could be enjoying, please visit the benefits of membership page or contact the ISPA Secretariat.
ISPA In The News
File sharing and self regulation
The media’s interest in file-sharing legislation continued this month with the release of the Creative Economy Programme’s strategy document from the DCMS.
ISPA responded with the following statement:-
As expected, there has been no change to Government policy in the strategy document published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport today:
“The Government recognises the value of the current discussions between ISPs and rights-holders; we would encourage the adoption of voluntary or commercial agreements between the ISPs and all relevant sectors. While a voluntary agreement remains our preferred option, we have made clear that we will not hesitate to legislate in this area if required.”
Any attempt for ISPs to be involved with combating illegal sharing of copyright protected materials – whether legislative of self-regulatory – needs to be legal, workable and economically sustainable, with cost recovery secured for ISPs.
ISPA is currently in talks with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to develop a framework for a pilot project. These discussions are continuing and the relevant Government departments continue to support this process.
It is ISPA’s preference to agree a non-legislative solution which carefully considers the complex legal framework – as recognised by the Culture Secretary – in which ISPs operate. This includes the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and the Data Protection Act 1998 which can limit what action ISPs can lawfully take against users’ private communications. These limitations are balanced against past experience of legislation in this area which can result in cumbersome regulation and may not offer an optimal solution.
Neither the Internet Services Providers’ Association nor our members support abuses of copyright and intellectual property theft. This is reflected in our commitment to finding a practical solution to address rights-holders’ desire for a workable approach to issuing notices on individual infringers.
ISPs bear no legal liability for illegal file sharing as the content is not hosted on their servers. ISPs are ‘mere conduits’ of information, as per the E-Commerce Regulations 2002.
For coverage of this issue please take a look at the media coverage page.