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Ofcom publishes draft code for internet piracy

By Mark Pack | Wed 2nd June 2010 - 12:15 pm

At the end of last week the regulator Ofcom published a draft of the code to be followed for taking action against online copyright infringement following the passage of the Digital Economy Act.

As Rory Cellan-Jones points out, some aspects of the draft code deal with concerns raised during the passage of the Act. In particular, the code only applies to ISPs with over 400,000 customers, thereby excluding operators of Wi-Fi networks such as cafes and universities who had been worried they would be forced to incur significant costs tightly policing their networks.

The code also confirms one of the concessions …

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Posted in News | Also tagged digital economy bill, ofcom and open rights group | 7 Comments

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