Ofcom will have increased powers to investigate and fine companies for transgressing competition rules and content standards.
Sidak points to what he considers to be significant differences between satellite radio and other media, including the more permissive content rules the FCC allows for satellite radio.
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WTO, it might have avoided many of the local-content rules or at least been prepared for import competition.
The ruling is a setback for the motion-picture industry, which pushed hard for the rules in an effort to control distribution of its content.
While we're totally in support of intellectual property owners getting paid for their content, we worry that these tough new rules will discourage and even prohibit the many legitimate uses of P2P networks that have nothing to do with stealing movies and music -- as usual, a few bad apples (well, maybe more than a few) have caused everyone else to suffer.
These rules cover the content of the notices, as well as the procedures for how employers notify employees of their rights and how employees notify employers of triggering events.
Net neutrality rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking, favoring or disfavoring content or services for reasons other than what is necessary to responsibly manage their networks.
China recently published sweeping new rules that require Internet companies to apply for a licence and hold them responsible for illegal content carried on their websites.
In Canada, some cultural groups are openly eyeing content filters as a mechanism to adapt Canadian content rules to the online environment, while others have expressed strong support for legal rules that force ISPs to accept heightened "responsibility" for the conduct of their subscribers.
The FCC itself has recognized that its inability to oversee violent content is a problem and in a 2007 report to Congress called for changing the rules.
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