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Wikipedia - IWF backs down 11:48am on 10 Dec 2008 This decision has really confused things in a way that is bound to come back and bite IWF later.

They did not decide that the image was not illegal - their appeal process supported the original decision.

Instead they decided that things were too hot for them and backed down.

So now, instead of applying an objective set of rules (is it illegal under UK law - admittedly a ruling with a degree of subjectivity, but an area in which IWF are probably the people who can credibly claim the most experience is guessing at what a jury would hold), they now have a second level of decision about how much flack the organisation will receive.

I think their credibility has suddenly flown away.
Freeserve and ten years of boom and bust 12:34pm on 22 Sep 2008 Virgin were certainly a significant ISP player back in the 90s - don't know of their size relative to Demon, but they were better known (outside of the techie community).

The big thing about Freeserve is it drove a change in billing models - previously everyone was on either a pay monthly plus per minute dial up charge, or a leased line type connection (pay lots per month). Freeserve bought a straight pay-as-you-go model in - just like the PAYG mobiles. 10 years on we have gone round several other models and pretty much settled on a fixed per month fee all inclusive (or possibly with bandwidth charges additional).

Freeserve also cause real problems for BT - the loophole that meant they payed a proportion of the phone charges to Freeserve dictated that those calls had to be carried by BT up to one of the termination points (for Freeserve that was Leeds or Croydon initially). BT could not cope with millions of calls each evening going to those few locations, and ended up having to do all sorts of work to handle those calls (mainly handing the calls over at other switching points in the UK - and having to pay out rather more to other telephony companies to take that traffic).

It was an interesting time - looking back you can see why thats a chinese curse!
A new national anthem 12:53pm on 27 Jun 2008 Why not God Save The Queen (as sung by the Sex Pistols)?

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