Government plans to curb illegal filesharing received a significant boost on Wednesday, as a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act failed to halt the legislation.
The UK’s two largest internet service providers, BT and TalkTalk, were dealt a blow as their judicial review of the DEA was thrown out of London’s high court on all but one of the legal grounds they had raised.
BT and TalkTalk argued the act infringed internet users’ « basic rights and freedoms » and received insufficient parliamentary scrutiny. […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/filesharing-bt-talktalk-digital-economy-act