Critics fear that this could ultimately damage the UK's growing digital economy. This bill is the result of extensive consultation and research that went into the Digital Britain report published in June of 2009.
The bill suggests the use of specific measures to tackle illegal file-sharing programs that could involve getting rid of several persistent pirates.
One of the first responses to this bill was the creation of a petition on the Number10.gov.uk website. this site was set up by TalkTalk's head of strategy and development, Andrew Heaney, and calls for the abolition of the proposal to disconnect illegal filesharers. After only five days after the bill was announced the site had gathered more than 16,000 signatures.
In addition, the legislation also tackles elements of the current radio industry and a new classification system for video games.
This big bundle of legislation was officially approve last Wednesday, April 7, 2010. The UK government is wasting no time enacting the recently passed Digital Economy Act. The country’s Office of Communications (Ofcom), regulatory body for the telecommunications industry, has announced that it’s already begun laying out a framework for how to proceed with establishing a code of practice for Internet service providers to comply with in order to tackle illegal file-sharing on their networks.
Altogether, the process is expected to take 8 months, the maximum amount of time the Act allows from the time of Royal Assent, which is the Queen’s formal approval of the legislation. This means the earliest ISPs could begin sending out warning letters to accused illegal file-sharers is this December.
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