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: GamePolitics.comDigital Economy Bill Passes
By pete_gallagher
The UK's Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons, with MPs okaying the measure in a 189 to 47 vote.
The Bill, which also was granted Royal Assent, makes PEGI the UK's sole rating system for videogames, introduces a variety of provisions for dealing with illegal file sharers, and debuts measures for blocking Internet access to online sites that may promote online copyright infringement.
The latter two procedures drew the ire of the Open Rights Group, whose Executive Director Jim Killock wrote, 'What a debacle. Measures to allow disconnection of individuals from the internet, for undefined periods of time, web blocking laws; all with no real scrutiny and limited debate.'
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).
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