UK Reaction: Internet Termination is “reckless and dangerous”
BBC reports 
on yesterdays news that alleged copyright infringers will have their connections terminated. “Politicians on all sides have been split by the proposal, and that Lord Mandleson had reached ‘the wrong conclusion’”. Don Foster has called it “reckless and dangerous. There are many families whose children, unbeknown to them, might be illegally downloading but now their own access could be put in jeopardy by Lord Mandleson’s proposals.” Mr Foster acknowledged that online piracy was “a major problem in the UK” but said overriding the opinion of Lord Carter and two Secretary of States was “bizarre”. The Conservative MP John Whittingdale, who is also chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said he was broadly supportive of Lord Mandleson’s proposals, but said that he may have inadvertently “killed his own bill”
