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UK Digital Economy Act Delayed Till 2014

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-little-breathing-room dept.

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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  1. Dear Mandy by wanzeo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    obligatory

  2. Meh. by SuricouRaven · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I doubt it'll do much, if anything, to deter pirates. They are an adaptive lot, and see any efforts to stop them as just a challenge to be overcome.

  3. Hopefully the beginning of the end by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is how we kill legislation. Delay it endlessly until a different government is elected and drops it.

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    1. Re:Hopefully the beginning of the end by Captain+Hook · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is how we kill legislation. Delay it endlessly until a different government is elected and drops it.

      The trouble is, this is the different government.

      The DEA was voted in by the last Labour Government in out of hours voting which saw a grand total of 236 (189 for, 47 against) votes cast (out of 650ish MP who could have voted).

      The Conservatives didn't bother voting one way or the other for the most part giving Labour a free run at introducing a law the Conservative wanted but knew wouldn't be popular.

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    2. Re:Hopefully the beginning of the end by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

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  4. It's incredibly easy to get around this by TAZ6416 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

    1. Re:It's incredibly easy to get around this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fortunately the UK has a clear written constitution and the first clause states "bad laws can't be made worse", so we're safe.