Digital economy question

There is no doubt in my mind that this bill’s philosophy has changed from its original idea. The digital economy bill was created to deliver high speed broadband for the whole of The UK through a public fund by 2012. First of all I dont think this has been carried out because there are still alot of households without high speed internet connections, I think the goverment have been heavily focusing on other parts of the bill and neglecting others such as this one.

Among one of the main measures is action against file sharing. The Bill states that repeat offenders could have their internet "cut off!" For me this is a step too far and simply shows were the priority lies. The Goverment would rather protect the music industry and try and save them money than keeping one of the bill's first promises in giving everyone in the UK internet connections. A compramise should try and be made because it's a tough problem to solve. People need to hear the music but music productions need the money from their prducts. Even google agrees that cutting off internet is a step in the wrong direction.

One of the main problems with file-sharing does seem to be illegal music download and I think in this department Spotify has it figured out. This programme allows subscribers to listen to variety of artist's but they do not own the music. There is a buy option so fans can download their favourite songs directly. I believe more programmes like this should be developed and the goverment has to accept that file-sharing, illegal downloading and piracy will not be going away in the near future, and probably never will!

Priority deffinately seems to be going with big buisnesses such as music producers and game developers. The goal seems to be trying to save their money rather than keep their promise of transforming Britain into one of the worlds leading digital knowledge economies.
The aim to "cut unlawful file-sharing by at least 70%" is an outrageous plan in my mind. It is a totally unrealistic view and, to me, shows that they will be carrying out with their "cut off" plan no matter what. Maybe they set this goal because they knew they wouldn't reach it.The fact that Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone recently condemned as "crazy" plans to combat online piracy by severing people's broadband connections shows that their are alot of the top internet providers are against the idea. TalkTalk have stated they will take legal action if any of their clients are cut off. Surely these buisnesses should be protected. Music producers will be saving some money but internet providers will be lossing it. Can the goverment win? Is their a compramise? I don't think so, piracy has been, and always will be a huge problem and it is going a much better bill than this to be solved! Everyone has to be kept happy, the downloaders, the music producers and the interet providers and at the minute this seems pretty hard to do all at once.

The main aim of record labels and music artist's is to deliver great music to their fansm it shouldn't be about the money. Of course there has to be a profit but in my opinion, the producers just need to make sure their music reaches their fans (through facebook, MySpace, spotify etc) and then trust them.If afan downloads the album for free, he may then pay for a concert ticket or some mercendise. A person may hear a song on spotify then go and purchase the album.

The Bill'seems very unrealistic and quite extreme in my mind and many of the leading internet companies seem to agree. "This would discourage innovation, impose unnecessary costs, potentially unsettling the careful balance of responsibilities for enabling market change." The fact is their will be too much money and time put in to tracking file-sharers and banning ISPS, time and money which could be spent funding internet in homes and setting up area access points. There has been many petitions already signed and surely the Bill will either be changed or scrapped!