UK Broadband Reviews

Many UK broadband internet providers and other digital freedom activitists joined together to attack the government's new proposals to disconnect the broadband services of suspected illegal internet downloaders. In a open letter to The Times, the heads of leading UK ISP s including Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse, Ian Livingston of BT, Tom Alexander of Orange have criticised the the new anti-piracy policy of the government, drawn by the Business secretary, Lord Mendelson. The letter warned that disconnection is against freedom of internet users and this harsh measure failed in other countries due to protests from broadband users. The broadband ISP s have given a few suggestions on how to stop illegal file sharing over internet: "We must avoid an extra-judicial ‘kangaroo court’ process where evidence is not properly tested and accused broadband users are denied the right to defend themselves against false accusations. Without these protections innocent customers will s...

Internet is a great way to get information or to be in touch with people around us. We need to send and receive information in many spheres including personal and official. Most common uses of internet are communicating via emails, photo sharing etc. As for the information sharing, this is vital for individuals and businesses. However, the digital information that we share on the internet should not have legal complications such as illegal file sharing meaning the copy righted prducts like music albums, movies, games etc are being shared freely on the internet. People who are involved in music or film industry will be certainly affected if this trend of illegal file sharing continues. We see people happily downloading files, movies, music from torrent sites without caring about the license or copy right. These illegal downloaders had also put so much load on the networks of their broadband providers. The result is, severe slow down and some times outage for hours. In 2008, the music ...