{"id":464962,"date":"2010-03-24T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100323\/0158248666.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-24T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T04:38:00","slug":"uk-digital-economy-bill-concession-is-to-allow-in-a-smidgen-of-due-process-after-youve-been-declared-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/464962","title":{"rendered":"UK Digital Economy Bill Concession Is To Allow In A Smidgen Of Due Process, After You’ve Been Declared Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the debate continues in the UK over the Digital Economy Bill, Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, is trying to appease critics of the bill, by promising to include an appeals process for those who are accused of copyright infringement<\/a> and threatened with having their internet access removed. This is mind-boggling for a few reasons. First, the admission shows that such an appeals process hadn’t been in the plan already. More importantly, it shows the general thinking: this is a guilty-until-proven-innocent process. You get accused and you’re guilty until you “appeal” and can prove that you were falsely accused. That doesn’t seem like reasonable due process. That seems like stacking the deck in favor of copyright holders against the public.<\/p>\n

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As the debate continues in the UK over the Digital Economy Bill, Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, is trying to appease critics of the bill, by promising to include an appeals process for those who are accused of copyright infringement and threatened with having their internet access removed. This is mind-boggling for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}