The biggest threat to the European Commission’s plans to regulate media on the internet is not from organisations like the CBI and OfCom; it is from technology itself. Already devices such as Slingbox [www.slingmedia.com/slingbox] and the software application Orb [www.orb.com] will allow you to pick up TV and video from a home PC equipped with a TV card on an internet-enabled device from anywhere in the world – a nightmare for the regulatory authorities. And it gets worse.
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 23:39
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The EC has drafted new rules for TV transmitted over the internet. But, asks Peter Warren, how do you police what is freely available at the click of a mouse?
The European Commission and the UK are once again set on a collision course. Forget constitutions, euros or Maastricht, this time it’s about something you care about: television, and particularly the future of TV and new media over the internet.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:08
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MICROSOFT is set to launch a new breed of PCs that will turn desktop computers into televisions. Hailed as the next stage in the evolution of the PC, the computers will take data simultaneously from the internet and from satellite and terrestrial TV broadcasts.
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