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."

Comments

Re:Hopefully the beginning of the end

[Captain Hook]

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.

Re:It's incredibly easy to get around this

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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.