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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

That had occurred to me as well. It seemed to me that the clause was either otiose or not. On the technical workshops bit, at a previous stage of the Bill the Minister pointed out that the rights owners have their own organisations monitoring this traffic and that monitoring will supply the information to the ISP to start logging against a particular subscriber to find out how many infringements there are, and then one goes further on to the Norwich Pharmacal order. The rights owners will have to respond to various privacy enhancing technologies which will appear: the "dark net", which started last autumn, is already here and then there are things like Tor, proxy servers and so on. There will also be quite a lot of technical things that the rights holders’ monitoring organisations will have to respond to. The concept that they will not be involved at a very technical level in trying to monitor is very weird to me.