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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, I presume that it is, but I find it difficult to understand how robust and challengeable evidence that I have done it can be produced without one having access to my computer or reconstructing my internet traffic in some detail, which is an entirely different subject. My understanding of what the noble Lord, Lord Davies, said was that the evidence could be provided in the case of uploading; in other words, where I have made a streaming download available or where I have placed a piece of music on a peer-to-peer network, and someone can go along and download it and, there it is, it has come from my IP address. You would then have an exact match to time and IP address with which it would be pretty difficult to argue—we will doubtless come on to the difficulties of IP address identification later, but it is at least pretty good evidence. However, on downloading, which goes the other way, I am still bemused as to how the Government think that they will get evidence.