Digital Economy Bill Passes another Hurdle
Posted February 24, 2010 6:08 am in Consumism, Great Music Tips, House Of Telecommunication by admin
Internet piracy is a problem which needs to be tackled with the help of strict legislation and its implementation. The
The Digital Economy Bill proposes to stop this practice of illegal downloading by disconnecting habitual offenders. It proposes a letter of warning to be sent to a first time defaulter. But if the same user is found to be engaging in this illegal practice again then his connection is will be terminated.
The Internet Service providers are naturally opposing this measure because the onus of stopping such practices is being put on them. Consumer rights group are also opposing this citing human rights infringement. The ISPs argue that they should not be asked to do the policing and also that it will be impossible to always get the defaulter because while it is easy to track the IP address it is not necessarily the same user using that IP address every time.
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Human Rights has found that the government’s policy is quite justifiable. However, according to the committee, there is no fixed criterion yet to identify a repeat offender and it directed Ofcom to review the relevant technical aspects for this.
Further, the committee said that the proposals of the Digital Economy Bill will not raise issues of privacy or infringe on the right to freedom of expression. In addition, if one looks at the benefit of reducing copyright infringement then the provisions of the bill are worth implementing.
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