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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I have acknowledged the importance of this matter but we have not started a moral panic. We have not used what I once described in a previous Bill as a piece of Lucasian hyperbole. Neither do I accept the disparaging and unfortunate remark of the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, when he suggested that the Bill team did not even understand the technical concept. We have a range of very talented civil servants who are more than capable of understanding that when one person is downloading a file from another, by definition the other is uploading it to them. That is precisely how these provisions will work. We know that this is possible because the BPI and other major ISPs successfully trialled this notification approach last winter. So I just make a plea for us not to make those kind of—