Net Neutrality: Threats in US, Cautious Optimism in EU

The last few months have seen debates over net neutrality and how to deal with copyright infringement coalesce to take over the headlines. In the UK, the success of their case against Newzbin2 has led BPI to ask BT to block The Pirate Bay, while in the United States, two bills are being pushed through Congress to allow the blocking of web sites in order to decrease illegal file sharing.