Despite the fact that the hugely controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA), a law that ushered in a three strikes law in the UK, the battle to try and at least tweak the law into some sense of reasonableness has been raging up to this day. The Open Rights Group were among many to file submissions to voice concerns that have lingered all these years. The UK had been teetering on the brink of a complete collapse in digital rights for quite some time up to the point where the legislation was passed back in March of 2010. Back then, it meant that the UK was going to be getting a three strikes law, web filtering and an all out public ban on public WiFi. At that point, digital rights seemed to be pushed off a cliff. If you were so much as suspected of repeatedly infringing on copyrighted material, that meant you were going to be disconnected from the Internet regardless if you were actually innocent or not. In fact, as if to add insult to injury, some of the idea’s on how to filter the Internet got so extreme since the laws passage, it got to the point where the ideas received praise from China .

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Open Rights Group and Others Try Fixing the Digital Economy Act