The Digital Economy Act has understandably, never been met with cheers from the general populous, and has been criticised and booed from the get go. At last, today, there’s some (moderately) good news for the average web user.
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The Digital Economy Act faces a showdown with ISP’s, as BT and Talk Talk announce that they’ve joined forces and filed papers demanding a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act.
The BBC would have to pay ISPs to deliver iPlayer traffic under the government’s new internet policy recommendations. Say bye bye to HD BBC iPlayer.
Pirates might have let out a sigh of relief after the government said it wouldn’t force ISPs to disconnect pirates caught filesharing, but we now know why: it wants them on a government watch list instead.
BitTorrent pirates have just been given a helping hand by Google. It’s launched a new set of tools to check if your ISP is blocking traffic to your PC. In particular, it’ll sniff out ISPs that block P2P traffic. That means BitTorrent, the filesharing system of choice for pirates.
ISPs won’t be forced to disconnect music pirates, according to government Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy.
in an interview with The Times, the MP said the Government had scrapped the idea of making ISPs cut off suspect P2P pirates, which Westminster was mooting as late as 2008.
Six of the UK’s largest file sharers have agreed to work with the music industry to scare file sharers into changing their ways.