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UK Dig Britain MP: Internet is an “Essential Service”
Stephen Timms highlights its important social, commercial, and economic benefits, but doesn’t say why it’s still okay to disconnect entire households under a three-strikes regime where the most egregious file-sharers – for whom the law would intended – can easily elude copyright holders anyways. The UK’s Digital Britain MP Stephen Timms made some interesting comments in the Telegraph recently that ought to make more people realize just how serious the discussion about disconnecting people from the Internet really is. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who feels Digital Britain’s current timetable , which stands at 2-3 yrs for a 70% reduction using a combination of notifications and technical measures, would take an “unacceptable amount of time to complete in a situation that calls for urgent action,” has proposed giving ISPs the power to disconnect repeat offenders ala a “three-strikes” graduated response system.
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Says criminals will turn to encryption to avoid detection and “make prosecution harder because it increases the workload significantly.” Law enforcement is the latest UK group to criticize Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s “ evolved ” plan to to disconnect repeat file-sharers from the Internet. Both police and the country’s spy services, MI5 and MI6, are concerned that the proposal will mean more criminals will begin encrypting their traffic to escape detection by copyright holders, thereby making their job much, much more difficult. “It will make prosecution harder because it increases the workload significantly,” one law enforcement official told The Times .
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