Mr Marcus McGowan MSc PgDip BA (Hons)

This Business Education Learning Blog is aimed primarily at Higher Business Management students/teachers and ICT students/teachers.

The aim of this blog is to provide you with interesting articles, news, trivia as well as resources or links to materials which will help in your course of study.

I am a Teacher of Business Education and I have written for Education Scotland and BBC Bitesize.

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Friday 20 November 2009

Digital Economy Bill

The Government plan to pass a new bill which will deal with many problems of our Digital Age.

It includes:

Taking action against illegal file-sharing forcing ISPs to take action against infringers. This includes the controversial measure which could see repeat offenders cut off

Amending the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act if in future new communications technologies allow content to be copied in new ways

A new duty on Ofcom to encourage investment the spread of next-generation broadband. Part of this involves that £6 telephone tax - but that will be introduced via the pre-Budget report

Digital "safety measures" to stop firms registering domain names for illicit use

Compulsory age ratings on video games aimed at players aged 12 and over
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