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Public funding for film and audiovisual works in Europe. A report by the... (2011)
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LEAD ARTICLE
Net Neutrality and Audiovisual Services
Network neutrality is fundamentally important for audiovisual services. Distribution of these services is becoming more and more dependent on fixed or mobile Internet networks, requiring very high transmission capacities and resulting in bottlenecks.
The lead article explains what exactly happens in the complex process between the supply and consumption of audiovisual media services via the Internet, both from a technical point of view and in the economic sense. It shows that the blocking or slowing down of data traffic linked to such bottlenecks creates the risk of unauthorised control of communication networks or of the data traffic that they carry. Does the legislature need to intervene and, if so, how?
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