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

[Nathan Cravens]

Hi Paul,

I enjoy how you are focusing on communications technologies, here and a
previous post. They are vital necessities for p2p activity. The more
communications channels absorb the best aspects of the human element, such
as higher bandwidth, the more we can depend on peer networks to perform
where institutions, and the people that create such curious social
artifacts, fail.

Nathan


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Paul D. Fernhout <
pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

>
> 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
> """
> 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.
> """
>
> 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/
>
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