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Back in April MPs voiced anger at the Digital Economy bill – aimed at supporting artists’ copyright and tackling illegal file-sharing – being rushed into law by a majority of 142 votes in the period before the elections. The Digital Economy Bill requires internet service providers to send letters to any of their subscribers linked to alleged infringements, while ISPs are able to suspend accounts of offenders.

However it doesn’t seem to have worked, since in October UK ISPs BT and Plusnet refused to hand over subscriber data to lawyers acting for independent record label, Ministry of Sound, and in November BT revealed it had deleted the records of 80 percent of the 250,000 names and addresses it had on file.

Ministry of Sound were said to be “speechless”.

The controversial UK Digital Economy  Bill has been passed and in doing so has opened up many online debates.

The UK Digital Economy Bill has made some new changes to how the Internet is used and punishments for those who do not use it wisely.

The main idea of the new bill is to clamp down on Internet pirates by now issuing compulsory Internet disconnection for persistent pirates and illegal file sharing and also making owners of public WiFi services also liable to having their whole connections taken down if someone is caught using the public connection for illegal purposes.