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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I find it difficult to understand how if I am accused and think myself innocent, I set about demonstrating that to the tribunal. I am puzzled about the way I am supposed to present my evidence. If I say, "I have never done this", what can I produce to substantiate that? If I say, "If it was on the system, it wasn’t me, and I have taken all the protective measures necessary", how do I demonstrate that? Am I going to surrender my laptop for three months or, as has happened in other civil cases, more than a year in order for people to pore over it, or will Ofcom make that process simple in some way or another? When you are not technically minded—even when you are technically minded—sitting down at a computer to dig into its intestines to provide the necessary logs to prove that it does not contain any evidence of downloaded copyright material or that it was not online at a particular time or whatever else it might be, is a very technical issue. The only way to tackle this is to have a properly designed program. Ofcom ought to make something like that available. It will not cost them; once it is done, it is there, and it will run. It may audit someone’s computer and say that there is no evidence of infringement.