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Digital Economy Bill opponents fight back
THOSE OPPOSING Lord Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill have called for MPs to give it "the debate it deserves".
The bill includes language giving Ofcom powers to cut off the Internet connections of persistent filesharers and block websites that it doesn't like.
However there are fears that the government will try to "fast track it into law before the election" in a bid to score election money from music publishers and movie studios.
The government said the bill had been debated several times and that is more than enough, after all in China where they have similar laws there was no debate at all.
A spokesperson for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) told the BBC that the Digital Economy Bill has been extensively debated and scrutinised in the House of Lords, with seven days in Committee and three days in Report Stage. The BIS said the bill spent three months in the House of Lords, and it had made significant amendments to strengthen and clarify it.
The opposition advert, which appears in the Guardian and the Times, was bought by the Open Rights Group (ORG) and digital campaigners 38 Degrees, paid for by donations.
Headlined "20,684 of us demand a proper debate on the Digital Economy Bill", it claims that most people have "major worries" about the plans but they are being fast-tracked into law "sidestepping debate and opposition". µ
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It's been debated in the house of lords... That club famous for having its finger on the pulse of reality.
I'm sure there are a couple in there who can use a PC, but 90% of them are so old their arthritic hands can barely hold a mouse, and they shake so much they can't click on any icon smaller than 200 x 200 pixels.
we need a bill to stop all the corrupt and fraudulent politicians from profiting from their position of responsibility.
but then, when was the government doing anything for the people? they do it for themselves and nobody else.
and furthermore, its not LORD mandelson, its DARTH mandelson!
Music publishers have never donated money to political parties, mostly because they don't have any.
Maybe Edward means the BPI? Or maybe he thinks record companies and publishers are the same thing?
Sloppy.