More on this available:

http://www.themusicvoid.com/2010/07/swings-roundabouts-and-lashings-of-legislative-lamenting/

All three candidate MPs replied to my e-mails and I was sure to base my considerations for who got my vote on their responses. Glad the party I voted for said no to passing the act.

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The code of practice currently only applies to larger ISPs with more than 400,000 subscribers.

This puts BT, TalkTalk and the other large ISPs at a business disadvantage, said Andrew Heaney, executive director of TalkTalk.

“It means we could have huge swathes of customers moving to smaller ISPs to avoid detection.”

They only give a shit about the fact the smaller ISPs won’t be held to the same standard. They will be perfectly happy with it as soon as all ISPs are treated equally.

How is 100mbps obsolete?

All new houses get fibre to the home, everyone else gets fibre to the box.

The next stage will be getting people to have fibre to the home.

100mpbs isn’t out yet but it’s in the pipeline moron.

About the throttling, I think you’ll find nearly all UK ISP’s throttle.

It’s not fiberglass you muppet, it’s a fiber of plastic.

Anywho, I think the whole idea of MPs being able to vote on something they haven’t attended the discussion for is ludicrous. Haven’t said that, the vast majority of voters don’t really know what they’re voting for either.

Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the act, it is an utter sham how it was passed and should be returned for proper debate.

Sadly I live in an area where you can paint a turnip red and it will get voted in. With less than 50% of the votes. Time for some electoral change as well?

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that is very interesting stuff wounder if my MP did as well as he is only around the corner from me (whats the link to find out who voted what)

It is shocking to note that only 240 MPs bothered to vote at all but that only approx 25 MPs took part in any debate. this out of a House which has 650 MPs. Every one of the LibDems who voted, voted against it. Only 4 conservatives voted for it out of the 9 who bothered to turn up. over 98 % of all votes for the bill were LABOUR

http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-digital-economy-bill-saints-the-mps-who-voted-against-labours-int ernet-freedom-clampdown-debill-18757.html

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Of the 189 Aye votes, I make it 185 Labour and 4 Conservatives. Plus the two tellers were Labour.

Of the 47 Noe votes, I make it 23 Labour rebels, 16 Lib Dems, 5 Conservatives and 3 others (DUP, PC, Ind). Plus the two tellers were Lib Dem.

In total 240 MPs took part in the vote: 98% of MPs who voted for the Digital Economy Bill were Labour MPs.

The opposition to the Bill comprised 49 MPs (including the two tellers). As a percentage of the major parties representation in the House of Commons that means:

29% of all Lib Dem MPs voted against the Bill (100% of those present);

6% of all Labour MPs voted against the Bill (11% of those present); and
3% of all Tory MPs voted against the Bill (56% of those present).

This Bill has made a mockery of the Parliamentary system and must be repealed in order for it to be debated properly and a proper vote to take place

BT have been setting up their 21st Century Network for awhile now.

THey have been set back by the government, not by choice. They have to upgrade the whole country and they have to pay and then let others use the network.

A deal needed to be broken where the Government paid for a small part of the rollout and then Ofcom would need to allow the use of the service just for BT to begin with before allowing others on so that they could recoup the costs.

Read up about them first mate before talking rubbish.

Fantasy unlimited packages are real where I live… and there’s no throttling or any other BS either.

http://www.talktalkmembers.com/content/view/58/68/

For the record, TalkTalk may be great on file sharing, but they’re the worst telco in the country for customer service – going so far as to invent ‘technical’ reasons why broadband customers are not able to migrate away. I applaud their stance on the Bill though – it’s a farce!

To be fair – both the Bill & Act are pointless. Anyone reading this knows a dozen ways to avoid detection, so this is about punishing people who dabble. Much like all laws, really!

any isp that doesn’t its only going to effect them when this bill comes into power since it’s their customers who’s going to be canceling their sub’s

i mean look at rapidshit they thought they were un-touchable they thought they could swap and change anything of their service with all their customers still just ponying up the money regardless

they got the shock of their lives this week with the millions of people who e-mailed them telling them they can shove it.

a company only exists because of its customers i think all businesses should understand this point

The first and readiest ISPs to bend over to the government will see their subscription numbers plummet, and the others will immediately get the message.