There is a fascinating battle going on in the US with cable operator and ISP, COMCAST, being accused of interfering with BitTorrent uploading. Comcast’s defence is that peer-to-peer video files are very large and that, at busy traffic times, they have to regulate traffic into an orderly flow.
The means by which they do [...]
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It’s a truism that the Australian Independent Production Industry is, in large part, neither robust nor good at exporting the real value of the talent that exists here. In the early eighties it was in better shape thanks to the presence of Tax incentives and more innovative broadcasters. By contrast in the UK there was [...]
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The ITV network in the UK is made up of fifteen regional television broadcasters, each of whom have public service obligations in return for their licences.
The company ITV Plc does not own the network but it does operate a dominating 11 of the fifteen companies. It was formed four years ago.
Since that time [...]
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