I commented on the Digital Economy Bill (Not DeBill, I hate that name) a few days ago and the whole story has been spinning around in my head for a while now. The problem is that even though the punishments are overly severe, nobody has the right too illegally download content they haven’t paid for.

It’s been really interesting, however, hearing the ISP’s responses to the whole affair, with TalkTalk’s response being the most surprising. For a company that, from past experience, offered loads of downtime and horrible transfer speeds, they seem to be the most vocal when it’s the government that enforces it on their customers. I guess they want to be the ones to do it, losing control or something to that affect.

It’s all just apart of making their customers feel protected. If a BT customer hears TalkTalk spouting all this, well, talk, they’ll be more inclined to switch to them to avoid any wrongdoing. It’s all very clever, whether they’ll actually take copyright holders to court over anything is a different matter though. It’s kind of tough to get someone out of stealing when they’ve been caught three times, no matter how good your lawyers are.