When the Digital Economy Act was pushed through Parliament at breakneck speeds before the Government Election this year it caused a massive outburst from the tech community due to the lack of thought and detail in the proposed plan. When it also passed the House of Lords and was brought into law many people gave up hope that the Act may be changed.
When this law comes into effect it will mean massive changes for ISPs as they comply with the new law, but it seems it's not just the public who are unhappy with the law - BT and TalkTalk are seeking a judicial review of the Act due to questions over it's legality.
Both think it had "insufficient scrutiny" and question whether its proposals to curb illegal file-sharing harm "basic rights and freedoms".
-- BBC News
Not only are they concerned that the law could make people move to smaller ISPs where they don't have the resources to check everyone's activity, but also that it may conflict with the EU legislation that ISPs are not responsible for what their connections are used for.
As I've said before, the majority of the Act is fine but they really do need to put more thought and detail into some of the more controversial elements of it. It wouldn't help if they got some "real world" experience behind the Act so that they would better understand what it would mean. However as the Government have closed the Twitter account for Digital Britain it suggests they have no intention of reviewing Act.
