Digital Economy Act : The ISP's response

[ProfHawking]

As you probably know the Digital Economy Bill has been passed into law and has become the Digital Economy Act 2010.
As of yet, it is not effective, as OFCOM is required to draw up a code of practice
In the interest of representing ISPs, the UK Network Operators Forum have begun drawing up a recommended code of practice for OFCOM, ideally to put in their 2 pence before the MPAA etc get their big fat fingers in ofcom pies.

The proposed code of practice is here, albeit in an early version:

http://aaisp.net.uk/dea-code.html

Have a read, and if you have any thoughts or suggestions to make it more fair, or spot any pitfalls I can pass them on if need be.

I think its pretty decent, although i dont like the lack of coverage on the appeals process. The general consensus is that changing broadband supplier is so much easier than appealing, that nobody will appeal.
Personally, i think the appeals process is one area that should be defined, so a subscriber can put their case across without spending huge amounts of time and money on a legal team to take on the copyright holders.

I think there should be some kind of panel, perhaps run by ofcom that allows mediation between the two parties.

[Roman Totale]

Not sure if this has been posted yet:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI[/media]

[Dr. kitteny berk]

[cheeseandham]

There is more interesting DEB info (and loopholes) on Adrian's blog.
http://www.me.uk/
I suggest anyone sweeping at least skim the relevant DEB articles.

[cheeseandham]

he's implemented the DEB loophole into the control panel for the adsl service.
http://aaisp.net.uk/legal-cp.html
i am now a 'communications provider' and as such my isp (aaisp) is not obliged to pass on my details under the DEB.

lols

[ProfHawking]

Thats a lovely loophole, a rather gaping one at that.

I wonder how many ISPs will take up the initiative and support customers who can say they are a service provider.

I'm guessing Virgin media unfortunately wont be as helpful as A&A, seeing as they seemed keen to jump onto the sending letters bandwagon even before it went through in parliament.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I just did some looking, apparently Be is following talktalk, and requiring a court order, which is good.

Not protection, by any means, but if nothing else adds a bit of protection.

[cheeseandham]

What is my ISP's policy on complying with the Act? from http://www.digitaleconomyact.info

(I got A&A's posts onto the front page of Slashdot as anonymous too