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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: BritBrat on November 10, 2010, 06:04:54 PM
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Government response
It is clear that online copyright infringement inflicts considerable damage on the UK’s creative economy including music, TV and film, games, sports and software. Industry estimates place this harm at £400m pa.
The Digital Economy Act includes a number of measures to tackle the problem and we expect these to be successful in significantly reducing online copyright infringement. However this is an area of rapid technological change and developing consumer behaviour. The Act therefore includes a reserve power to introduce further “technical” measures if the initial measures do not succeed. These technical measures would limit or restrict an infringers’ access to the internet. They do not include disconnection.
hmg.gov.uk (http://www.hmg.gov.uk/epetition-responses/petition-view.aspx?epref=dontdisconnectus)