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[News] Digital Economy Bill: Call for Action Against Such Disgrace

  • Subject: [News] Digital Economy Bill: Call for Action Against Such Disgrace
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:39:42 +0100
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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.
| 
| 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.
| 
| 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
|
| 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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