Tomorrow it looks like the Digital Economy Bill will pass and we’ll soon get disconnected for downloading things we shouldn’t be. You know if this would have happened three or so years ago, I would have been outraged, claiming things like “this will only lead to more restrictions” and “it’s against our rights”.

The problem is that although people will and probably have made those arguments against the bill, nobody has the right to illegally download content – even though everyone does it. Naturally though there are parts of the bill that make no sense. However, the principle of stopping people from pirating content is in the right place, the way they’re going about it isn’t.