I may be wrong, but I thought that the convention on wash-up is that there has to be a Second Reading and one Committee stage on a Bill before it can be dealt with in the wash-up. Others may be able to give a better explanation of the position but...

I may be wrong, but I thought that the convention on wash-up is that there has to be a Second Reading and one Committee stage on a Bill before it can be dealt with in the wash-up. Others may be able to give a better explanation of the position but...

I want briefly to raise a question that I am sure the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, has raised in the past on this issue. If part of the consortium is a local newspaper group, it cannot be bound—and certainly the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, would insist that it cannot be...

I want briefly to raise a question that I am sure the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, has raised in the past on this issue. If part of the consortium is a local newspaper group, it cannot be bound—and certainly the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, would insist that it cannot be...

I was not going to speak on this amendment, but the debate has become about the rights and wrongs of secondary legislation, rather than what the Bill is about, namely the digital economy. With due respect to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, on whose committee I served, he is a...

I was not going to speak on this amendment, but the debate has become about the rights and wrongs of secondary legislation, rather than what the Bill is about, namely the digital economy. With due respect to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, on whose committee I served, he is a...

My Lords, I confess that I am one of these people who on occasion does not understand whether something that I want to do on the computer is legal or not. For example, I get e-mails from a company called 3B Software which offers for a small annual sum of...

My Lords, I confess that I am one of these people who on occasion does not understand whether something that I want to do on the computer is legal or not. For example, I get e-mails from a company called 3B Software which offers for a small annual sum of...

My Lords, the previous Labour Administration in Scotland started a scheme to extend broadband specifically to rural and remote areas. Let us be clear: there is a difference between a remote area, where only a handful of people may live, and a rural area, which could be a village in...

My Lords, the previous Labour Administration in Scotland started a scheme to extend broadband specifically to rural and remote areas. Let us be clear: there is a difference between a remote area, where only a handful of people may live, and a rural area, which could be a village in...

I shall put it the other way round. The BBC website, in particular, often provides links to other websites. If the noble Baroness’s amendment were accepted, would the BBC be unable to link to a newspaper story that was not balanced or would that story then become part of the...

I shall put it the other way round. The BBC website, in particular, often provides links to other websites. If the noble Baroness’s amendment were accepted, would the BBC be unable to link to a newspaper story that was not balanced or would that story then become part of the...

Does that mean that it would be two years before any action could actually be taken?

Does that mean that it would be two years before any action could actually be taken?

My Lords, I do not think that my noble friend replied to the point made by the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, about local authorities providing free internet access in their area, which is a much broader concept than that of universities or libraries, particularly as it will be wireless and...

My Lords, I do not think that my noble friend replied to the point made by the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, about local authorities providing free internet access in their area, which is a much broader concept than that of universities or libraries, particularly as it will be wireless and...

I am feeling rather confused by all this. It seems that, quite rightly, we are trying to bring about a system that does not penalise the subscriber. That might be me or it might be any other Member. If I receive a letter, I will probably say, "Fine, I have...

I am feeling rather confused by all this. It seems that, quite rightly, we are trying to bring about a system that does not penalise the subscriber. That might be me or it might be any other Member. If I receive a letter, I will probably say, "Fine, I have...

I am slightly confused. The noble Lord is, in one sense, talking about downloading, but the amendment refers to access. They are not necessarily the same; you can access an internet service without downloading it to your computer.

I am slightly confused. The noble Lord is, in one sense, talking about downloading, but the amendment refers to access. They are not necessarily the same; you can access an internet service without downloading it to your computer.

Does the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, imply from that that someone should not get into my e-mails, for instance, and read them as a result of what the Government propose? The problem with that, and the problem with legislating in this area, is that a lot of e-mails contain links....

Does the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, imply from that that someone should not get into my e-mails, for instance, and read them as a result of what the Government propose? The problem with that, and the problem with legislating in this area, is that a lot of e-mails contain links....

I am grateful to my noble friend for that point. I understand that it is quite possible to block a site when someone is taking something directly from a website, but is it possible to block in the same way a link on an e-mail that has been sent to...

I am grateful to my noble friend for that point. I understand that it is quite possible to block a site when someone is taking something directly from a website, but is it possible to block in the same way a link on an e-mail that has been sent to...

My Lords, my problem is often the other way round: I am told about websites that I have no wish to know about. This is done mainly through e-mails which say, "Click on this and you will go into such and such a website". I have not been blocked from...

My Lords, my problem is often the other way round: I am told about websites that I have no wish to know about. This is done mainly through e-mails which say, "Click on this and you will go into such and such a website". I have not been blocked from...

My Lords, I confess to considerable ignorance of the copyright laws, but a basic problem with the whole copyright business is that copyright is, in the main, about the use of something in a particular country, whereas the internet is international and therefore spreads across the world. There are differences...

My Lords, I confess to considerable ignorance of the copyright laws, but a basic problem with the whole copyright business is that copyright is, in the main, about the use of something in a particular country, whereas the internet is international and therefore spreads across the world. There are differences...

I think the police have already taken cases which have been proven in court against people who have illegally taken a wi-fi service from someone else’s computer. I know of a case where somebody knew a bloke had an unguarded wi-fi system in his house and so he sat outside...

I think the police have already taken cases which have been proven in court against people who have illegally taken a wi-fi service from someone else’s computer. I know of a case where somebody knew a bloke had an unguarded wi-fi system in his house and so he sat outside...

My Lords, perhaps I may say briefly that this is a problem and I accept, even as a Scotsman, that the noble Lord, Lord Triesman, has a point about sports rights. However, looking into the future, you wonder how accurate it will be. I wonder whether Manchester United, with a...

My Lords, perhaps I may say briefly that this is a problem and I accept, even as a Scotsman, that the noble Lord, Lord Triesman, has a point about sports rights. However, looking into the future, you wonder how accurate it will be. I wonder whether Manchester United, with a...

I have some difficulty with this, particularly in relation to the BBC and the licence fee, because if I pay a licence fee, at the end of the day I am paying the BBC to make programmes, not to view just on the one occasion that they are broadcast, but...

I have some difficulty with this, particularly in relation to the BBC and the licence fee, because if I pay a licence fee, at the end of the day I am paying the BBC to make programmes, not to view just on the one occasion that they are broadcast, but...

We are talking entirely about downloading; that is, the act of bringing something down from the internet on to your own computer and then using it. What about streaming? If I watch a film on my computer without downloading it on to the computer, on a stream basis, is that...

We are talking entirely about downloading; that is, the act of bringing something down from the internet on to your own computer and then using it. What about streaming? If I watch a film on my computer without downloading it on to the computer, on a stream basis, is that...