The UK government has today been accused of backtracking on an earlier pledge to cut internet piracy and illegal file sharing by 70% between 2008 in 2010. While officially the targets remain the same, behind the scenes the government has laid the groundwork for this particularly tough target to be moved to “sometime in the [...]

Even though it would be naive to suggest that illegal file sharing does not occur on a daily basis, the government seems to have tarred every single broadband user in the UK with the same brush. The grandly named Digital Britain report, released by Lord Carter, has opened up a very interesting and potentially controversial [...]