[p2p-research] Slashdot | 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland

[Paul D. Fernhout]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/2229231/1Mb-Broadband-Access-Becomes-Legal-Right-In-Finland
"Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a 
one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and 
Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws 
guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally 
guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."

Embedded article:
   "Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right"
   http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html
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According to the report, every person in Finland (a little over 5 million 
people, according to a 2009 estimate) will have the right of access to a 1Mb 
broadband connection starting in July.
   And they may ultimately gain the right to a 100Mb broadband connection. 
Just more than a year ago, Finland said it would make a 100Mb broadband 
connection a legal right by the end of 2015. Wednesday's announcement is 
considered an intermediate step.
   France, one of a few countries that has made Internet access a human 
right, did so earlier this year. France's Constitutional Council ruled that 
Internet access is a basic human right. That said, it stopped short of 
making "broadband access" a legal right. Finland says that it's the first 
country to make broadband access a legal right.
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Is this somehow indirectly a right to p2p? :-)

Or is this a way to ensure everyone gets to visit mainstream web sites?

Or does it just go beyond all that or besides all that?

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/