UK Digital Economy Act Delayed Till 2014

judgecorp writes "Although ISPs protests failed to stop Britain's Digital Economy Act — which applies measures against illegal file sharing — they have succeeded in delaying it till 2014. As a result of the appeal a new impact assessment has to be carried out secondary legislation needs to be approved."

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It's incredibly easy to get around this

[TAZ6416]

It only apples to ISP's with over 400000 customers of which there are 5 at the moment http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/08/bt-talktalk-challenge-digital-economy-act

Just change to one of the many other ISP's out there http://www.ispreview.co.uk/list.shtml

Re:Hopefully the beginning of the end

[TheRaven64]

In wales, at least, Plaid has pretty sane policies towards IP. My Plaid MEP has spent much of her time campaigning for shorter copyright terms and against software patents.