Government responds to TalkTalk petition on file sharing

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Coalition appears to agree with ISP that disconnecting suspected illegal file sharers is too draconian

The government has responded to a petition from broadband provider TalkTalk calling for proposals within the Digital Economy Act that would see illegal file sharers forcibly disconnected from the i...

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