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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I support what the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, said, and my noble friend’s amendment. I am glad that we are having this debate. What would help me in considering whether we are likely to be able to strike any sort of balance between the rights of the citizen to know exactly how the evidence was obtained and what they are facing is if the Minister could say a little more about how copyright holders will obtain that evidence. What technical methods will they use to get the evidence that people have been file-sharing? I appreciate that it is a fairly technical question but—in order that people can understand whether there is any evidence against them and whether their name is on the list erroneously, and so on—it is reasonable to lay out, at least before this Committee, how copyright holders will get that evidence. What technical method will they use? If the Minister can explain that in layman’s terms, it would be very helpful.