Wednesday 20 April 2011

Filesharing mystery lawsuit

I don't do it. I don't understand it. Please send to my mate Warrington Cheshire of no fixed abode, the flat above mine.

Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk

Filesharing: BT and TalkTalk fail in challenge to Digital Economy Act

Black Eyed Peas
The music industry claims illegal filesharing is damaging sales of acts such as Black Eyed Peas. Photograph: Jim Cooper/AP

Government plans to curb illegal filesharing received a significant boost on Wednesday, as a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act failed to halt the legislation.

The UK's two largest internet service providers, BT and TalkTalk, were dealt a blow as their judicial review of the DEA was thrown out of London's high court on all but one of the legal grounds they had raised.

BT and TalkTalk argued that the act infringed internet users' "basic rights and freedoms" and received insufficient parliamentary scrutiny.

Plans to send thousands of warning letters to alleged illegal downloaders should now go ahead in the first half of next year.

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