From the Daily Telegraph:
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The [British] Government has admitted that it cannot implement legislation to curb internet piracy until spring 2012 at the earliest, as it prepares for a legal battle in the High Court.
The already-delayed Digital Economy Act (DEA) will be challenged by BT and TalkTalk on Wednesday in a judicial review. The two companies aim to block a new copyright enforcement regime that could force them to slow down broadband access to customers accused of unlawful downloading.
The Act, passed in the final days of the last Parliament, had been due to come into force in January. But as well as this week’s judicial review, it has been held up by a series of unanticipated administrative and regulatory hurdles.
Under the DEA, film and music groups will collect data about downloaders, which broadband providers will be forced to match against their customer databases. They will write to those accused to warn them they are infringing copyright.
If this “mass notification system” does not curb unlawful downloading by 70 per cent in a year, further provisions of the Act will be triggered which mean those who have ignored the warnings will have their internet access slowed or even temporarily suspended.
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