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Heavy fines and loss of internet connection are just two ways you could be penalised if anyone on your computer or network is found to be downloading files that breach copyright regulations. American readers contacted me outraged at what they see as the government limiting our freedom in the UK, following an article on the popular technology website Boingboing about the recent Digital Economy Bill. I promised no more acronyms today so I refuse to call it DEB!

With all of the questions surfacing among this topic there was one certainty. If you own and ran a gambling website you will be pursued by the government until the end of days. That is one thing that they take extremely serious. Obviously, if you take care of the source you take care of the problem. In addition, it's much harder to go after ten million individuals then it is to target several hundred website owners.

There is a big ongoing debate right now regarding sports gambling. Those who are strongly against it believe that it will lead to games being fixed. In reality, it's not likely to happen in professional sports as it would be quite difficult to have players, coaches, referees, and owners all to be involved to fix the outcome of all games. Those that are in favor of sports betting are saying that it's just something people to do for purely entertainment purposes while they watch the game. My personal opinion is that sports gambling will eventually take you for everything you own.

If your network is used the penalty will affect you rather than the hacker, and with fines of £50,000 for filesharing, plus the risk of losing internet connection and having websites blocked, these new laws are to be taken seriously. Internet Service Providers who don't take the necessary steps to investigate and find breaches in copyright can be fined £25,000, so we're likely to see more action taken against this kind of offence.

The Boingboing article stirred up controversy but is it a fair view of the internet in the UK, and the validity of these laws? The journalist sees these regulations as targeting the entertainment industry, and protecting copyright in this field, but surely this also protects other types of software download.

The article accuses Peter Mandelson, who is responsible for the Bill, because it doesn't include measures to stimulate the digital economy by 'ensuring that broadband is cheap, fast and neutral' and also to get 'Britain's poorest connected to the net'. It also states that copyright rules shouldn't get in the way of entrepreneurship and the 'freedom to create new things', because schoolchildren should freely be able to use the publicly-funded media such as the main television channels

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