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The Digital Economy Bill



The reading of the Digital Economy Bill in the UK went passed so far in the UK parliament you could be forgiven for thinking you had just seen a high speed train going through your local station. The one you thought you were going to get onto but then you had actually missed 5 minutes earlier. The Bill was a worthy document that did address numerous aspects of the problems faced by film makers whose product is often downloaded illegally meaning the film maker receives no money for the said download.



But the aspects of this are far more complicated than the Bill was able to express in its short renditions of copyright theft. The matter of websites who offer an illegal download service needs to be properly addressed and there is no way round it but banning them outright and as the Bill says blocking their downloading facility. No one walking into a shop is legally allowed to shoplift so why do we think that doing it on the internet should receive no greater penalty than the right to continually download products that were stolen from the owners?



Young downloaders take note and perhaps their parents in the case of music should buy them an ipod that only downloads films and music from itunes which has already had its products pre bought and the subscription allows more purchases which are done on vouchers and monthly payments. There are legal ways of doing it and these should be the only way for the fast highspeed train download. Anything else is a half measure not worth thinking about.