The government has admitted that new plans to crack down on the illegal sharing of copyright content online will cost broadband customers millions. Pushing through the new Digital Economy Bill, ISP providers will be required to send letters to file-sharing individuals before either cutting off, or lowering the speed of broadband for repeat offenders. Revealing that this could cost customers an extra £25 per year, they said that a £500m bill could be seen overall.
Estimating that a possible £1.40 extra on monthly bills could result in the Digital Economy Bill, the government also said that a possible 40,000 would decide to cut their internet connections. However, enforcement of the scheme could see the music and film industries see £1.7bn extra in sales over the following decade, with the government gaining £350m from VAT.
Internet providers meanwhile have asked content providers to contribute towards the extra costs. Carphone Warehouse’s chief executive Charles Dunstone said “Broadband consumers shouldn’t have to bail out the music industry. If they really think it’s worth spending vast sums of money on these measures then they should be footing the bill; not the consumer.”
Meanwhile others continued to criticise plans, including BT’s director of consumer division John Petter. Explaining that the new system promoted “collective punishment” he said “Put yourself in the shoes of a small businessman who has a rogue member of staff. Your internet access could get cut off because of the actions of one individual. It really feels like the UK is out on a limb with these proposals compared to the rest of the world.”
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Mandy’s Meddling’s will cost us all a lot more than £500 million.
If Mandy gets his bill into Law to enable Copyright material to be re-written under ‘Section 17’ of this proposed act. Once the Law is in force all Copyright Material will be deemed as ‘Legally Compromised’, hence made Nil in Void and as Copyright is matched to the Patent the Patent is also ‘Legally Compromised’ made Nil in Void.
I’m sure Bill Gates (for one) will be chuffed to bits when he finds this out. One of the biggest losers would be the Drug companies as all their products for sale or distributed in the UK during the time that law is in effect deems their rights Nil in Void.
Most all documents used in the transfer process of the Stock Markets are Copyright Protected so these to will be deemed as ‘Nil in Void, legally worthless. The far ranging effects of Mandy’s meddling will cause havoc as Share Prices are lost and Patents and Copyright’s are lost. Even currency is Copyright Protected hence it also would become ‘Nil in Void’ worthless, non-legal tender.
Hence Mandy’s so-called ‘Digital Rights Act/ Digital Economy Bill’ is legally seriously flawed.
Why will Mandy’s law makes all Copyright material ‘Legally Compromised’ made Nil in Void you ask?
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Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk
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