UK Internet Termination “unworkable, unnecessary and potentially illegal”
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
CWUK reports that 
“News that the UK government was doing a U-turn over the use of a “three strikes and you’re out” approach has finally turned the growing tragedy of the Digital Britain process into a total farce. For all its faults, at least those putting together the Digital Britain report seemed to understand a fundamental truth: that access to the Internet is now on a par with access to electricity and water – you simply cannot function properly in a modern society without it. Thus its target of providing a minimum access speed of 2Mbits/s to everyone in the UK was a step in the right direction, albeit rather unambitious compared to what other countries like France and South Korea already provide. From that understanding flowed the inevitable conclusion that cutting people’s Internet connection was not a just or proportionate punishment for allegedly swapping copyright materials, any more than cutting someone’s electricity supply would be for watching the TV without a licence, or cutting someone’s water supply would be for brewing illegal spirits.”. More news over at the Guardian who calls the approach “unworkable, unnecessary and potentially illegal”.
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
