Government unveils new laws to tackle illegal internet downloads
November 23, 2009 |12:05 | Gossips By : Team X
The new Digital Economy Bill aims to ensure the UK is at the ''leading edge'' of global online industries, the Government says. Under the proposed legislation, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would be required to notify users accused of online piracy.

They would also have to record how many times each subscriber receives one of these notifications. This would allow the copyright holders to apply for a court order to get the name and address of serious repeat offenders so they can take legal action against them.
But the Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday and published on Friday, also makes provision for the Secretary of State to direct communications regulator Ofcom to develop tough sanctions for illegal file-sharers.

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.











