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Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News He said it has been difficult for anti-patent campaigners to have as much impact as the pro-patent lobby, as they are volunteers who cannot afford to lobby full time. Rufus Pollock from the UK branch of the Federation for a Free Information...
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Campaigners back call for DRM debate
News An MP's suggestion that the British Library moderate the debate over digital rights management (DRM) and copyright law has been welcomed by cyber rights campaigners. Suw Charman, executive director of The Open Rights Group, said on Wednesday that...
[March 15, 2006, 14:25]
Mobile phone campaigners welcome court ruling
News Campaigners fighting against the erection of mobile phone masts in north London are celebrating a high court ruling that they hope could mean that applications for new masts can be rejected because of health concerns.
[June 28, 2002, 17:20]
Broadband campaigners get free Web sites
News Our sponsorship package is an ideal opportunity for local campaigners to launch broadband lobby Web sites with minimal effort using a template that is both informative and impartial," said Jomie Carmichael, co-founder and director of Eclipse...
[May 15, 2003, 17:12]
Help sought as campaigners push the rural agenda
News A group of rural broadband campaigners are gearing up to organise a major conference to debate the way forward in fighting the broadband divide. The Access To Broadband Campaign (ABC) will hold the Rural and Regional Broadband Conference in London...
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
E-voting flawed in London election, say campaigners
News Digital rights campaigners have repeated assertions that the May 2008 London mayoral election results were potentially flawed due to e-voting problems. However, Open Rights Group (ORG) campaigners asserted that as many as 41,000 votes could have...
[July 18, 2008, 16:24]
ID cards campaigners aren't giving up
Talkback Everyone I have spoken to about this who is in favour of ID cards is largely ignorant of the issues - those that do understand it fully are usually against. Do yourself a favour and read up on it now, protesting you didn't know enough about it to...
[February 13, 2006, 11:36]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback If the first one hundred messages per day were free, I see no reason why individuals should have any objections to paid email. This is so because spam is causing an enormous loss of time nation wide, and time is money.
[February 13, 2006, 11:38]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback How can they guarantee that the mail will be delivered? What when the email goes into a local email server on the home network and the spam filter kills it off, it still won't get to the user who should see it.
[February 7, 2006, 9:31]
ID cards campaigners aren't giving up
Talkback Yet more taxes to pay for more New Labour initiatives. Everything this government does ends up with the working people (and I mean the wealth producers, not public employees and the like) paying even more taxes.
[February 13, 2006, 15:39]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback Once again we see someone slighting the originators of the Internet as hippies and completely missing the point. AOL et al are just doing what they do best. Making money. It is not our duty to make that easier.
[February 7, 2006, 13:57]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback err.arn't these comments spam
[February 7, 2006, 0:06]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback Some more info on Simon Gentry : http://kwiki.ffii.org/SimonGentryEn
[December 15, 2004, 11:20]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback Does anyone really think that this is not just a glitzed up opportunity for corporates to pass yet another cost onto the consumer? On the surface it may seem that it is limited to companies spamming, however it will not be long before the costs are...
[February 13, 2006, 22:06]
Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners
Talkback I've had no invitation despite having written to my MP and MEPs several times on this issue, and had replies back. On the other hand, I don't see any point in attending, as the Government has made up its mind and never listens to anyone but...
[December 13, 2004, 15:54]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback I do not agree to this proposal as it is not a necessity in any way, the subscriber having already paid his ISP to connect to the net and has either paid for a browser or using a free browser. If AOL and YAHOO are planning this for their own users...
[February 7, 2006, 15:17]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback The patenting of software is not only a bad idea it would prevent many ordinary software engineers from practicing their profession and would put many small companies out of business. The meeting at the DTI may have been a joke but it was a joke in...
[February 22, 2005, 23:23]
Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog Comment This has always being the case though with the British government and councils, irregardless of what the topic may be they see us the British tax payer as a bottomless pitt. Yet if you went to a small business link to seek funding to setup your own...
[November 23, 2009, 21:57]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Talkback I don't quiet get the deal here. A company who wants to legitimately send e-mails to it's readers (ZDnet is an example).has to pay AOL to send to AOL customers and to Yahoo for Yahoo customers, all those who don't use either of these services would...
[February 7, 2006, 14:05]
Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog Comment What a shame it is that the great work of the NHS is brought under a black cloud by the incompetencies of the bureaucratic oafs that line the corridors of Victoria Street and Whitehall. Too many no hoper job-for-life seeking civil servants with...
[November 24, 2009, 8:06]
