Comments on: How the Digital economy bill will affect you http://sheffieldblog.com/2010/01/31/how-the-digital-economy-bill-will-affect-you/ A blog. About Sheffield. Mon, 21 May 2012 10:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SEO対策 http://sheffieldblog.com/2010/01/31/how-the-digital-economy-bill-will-affect-you/#comment-1243 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:39:33 +0000 http://sheffieldblog.com/?p=3516#comment-1243 At first, it may bring many inconveniences, but people will adjust to it gradually, maybe…

]]> By: Joe Pritchard http://sheffieldblog.com/2010/01/31/how-the-digital-economy-bill-will-affect-you/#comment-1242 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:44:49 +0000 http://sheffieldblog.com/?p=3516#comment-1242 Whilst I have problems with the Digital Economy Bill – it’s a typical half-baked piece of New Labour legislation designed by control freaks, for control freaks I am not convinced that the bill should have as large a detrimental impact on digital businesses as people are suggesting.

How many businesses rely on free WiFi for Net access? I’d like to hope none. For a business an internmet connection is like the pohone or the power – you gets what you pays for.

If you’re ‘out and about’ and want Internet connection, then whilst it’s a pain to not have free WiFi available, it’s not a massive additional cost each month.

The issues around freedom of speech are many in this bill – restricting access to free WiFi isn’t one of them.

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