EC want to regulate internet TV
The “TV Without Frontiers” directive is a proposed piece of European legislation that would mean that anything that appears to be television and travels over the internet is television, and therefore becomes subject to TV regulations.
The CBI, however, is unimpressed. “The European Commission seems to be ignoring the fact that opposition to the directive has been signed by the business associations of six other countries,” says Jeremy Beales, the CBI’s head of e-business. “The problem with this piece of legislation is that the EC has focused on television because that’s all that they are interested in. Their motivation is to protect public service broadcasters and the TV industry with a catch-all piece of legislation that could affect huge numbers of websites because of a badly phrased piece of legislation.”
July 7th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
The directive itself seems to be linked here:
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=2343
July 8th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
After an incident on the Oz Big Brother it appears that the idea has kicked off in Australia now as well:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1813204,00.html