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The future of the Digital Economy Act is in your hands
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| It is also wholly wrong that customers
| should be footing the Bill of this
| enforcement scheme. The vast majority, even
| by copyright holdersâ estimates, do not
| infringe their copyrights, yet they will be
| paying for a quarter of this scheme. A small
| number will be priced off the Internet by
| even a small rise in broadband bills â
| Consumer Focus estimate perhaps 10,000
| households.
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| BT also drew attention to the lack of a
| Privacy Impact Assessment for the scheme.
| Privacy concerns could scupper the
| acceptability of letter writing. Yet the
| engagement from the government and ICO on
| this issue has so far been less than
| acceptable.
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| ORG and other groups have been willing to
| accept the principle of letter writing, but
| this current consultation shows the
| weaknesses in the legislation that was
| rammed through in the dying hours of the
| last Parliament. Already the Act threatens
| to punish innocent people with additional,
| unwarranted costs and bars to clearing their
| name.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/the-future-of-the-digital-economy-act-is-in-your-hands
Recent:
ConDems Wonât Repeal UKâs Digital Economy Act
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| All those angry digital liberties
| campaigners? They shouldnât get their
| hopes up too much about the Digital
| Economy Act under a new governmentâ
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| âWeâre not going to repeal it,â the new UK
| governmentâs Conservative culture
| secretary Jeremy Hunt told paidContent:UK.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-condems-wont-repeat-uks-digital-economy-act/
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