Repeal the Digital Economy Act immediately (SHORTLY TO CLOSE!) Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/repeal-the-digital-economy-act-immediately-shortly-to-close.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:07 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Shaun Wilde [Signature #88] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7511783?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 08:59:21 UTC 7511783 Robert Goatham [Signature #87] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7499736?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 May 2010 06:53:44 UTC 7499736 Andrew Reid [Signature #86] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7487659?utm_medium=rss This Bill is the worst kind of draconian law.

Any government who passes a bill when it has no understanding of its contents shows itself as corrupt, stagnent and dangerous.

The entertainment industry are clinging to a failed business model and have used David Geffin to attempt a coup d'état of the policy making machine.

How dare you!!

]]> Sat, 1 May 2010 05:35:40 UTC 7487659 Jay Hawkins [Signature #85] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7482941?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:00:08 UTC 7482941 Klim MacKenzie [Signature #84] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7482273?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:18:46 UTC 7482273 Sean Robertson [Signature #83] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7482267?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:17:51 UTC 7482267 Anonymous [Signature #82] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7482026?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:40:54 UTC 7482026 Anonymous [Signature #81] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475354?utm_medium=rss SCRAP IT NOW

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:24:10 UTC 7475354 Erik Wade [Signature #80] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7473008?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:33:06 UTC 7473008 jordan rudd [Signature #79] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7470787?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:11:53 UTC 7470787 Sam Brookfield [Signature #78] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7468957?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:23:01 UTC 7468957 Badar Raisi [Signature #77] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7460183?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:46:23 UTC 7460183 Zack Miland [Signature #76] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7455395?utm_medium=rss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:03:29 UTC 7455395 Chris Morrison [Signature #75] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7454979?utm_medium=rss After hearing about this new piece of legislation and how it was rushed through to avoid criticism I was speechless. This act is a blatant violation of freedom of ideas and human rights & I hope the future governments 1st decision is to scrap it.

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:53:03 UTC 7454979 Dave Hitchcock [Signature #74] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7454310?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:03:36 UTC 7454310 Marek Beleščiak [Signature #73] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7453955?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:15:16 UTC 7453955 Sylvia List [Signature #72] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7425511?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:04:04 UTC 7425511 alex atkin [Signature #71] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7415867?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:34:35 UTC 7415867 Andrew M [Signature #70] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7409664?utm_medium=rss I consider this bill an affront to democracy.

]]> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:35:22 UTC 7409664 Alan Bacon [Signature #69] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7401366?utm_medium=rss This is a disaster for the UK. Shame on the MP's who ignored it!

]]> Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:43:39 UTC 7401366 Chris Hardley [Signature #68] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7395815?utm_medium=rss Absolutly disgusting bill, passed right before parliament is dissolved so that we can't directly contact 10 Downing Street.

Its a disgrace, censorship, this is NOT China.

]]> Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:47:49 UTC 7395815 Alex Cockell [Signature #67] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7388692?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:31:25 UTC 7388692 Anonymous [Signature #66] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7377058?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:08:04 UTC 7377058 David Odongo [Signature #65] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7374844?utm_medium=rss The internet has given us a next generation radio with which to discover, follow and support artists who interest us across the world. This bill is taking that away from us.

Like many people of my age, I wouldn't have bothered trying to discern between one pack of lying windbags and the next but now I WILL vote away from anyone who proposes to force such a radical and negative impact on my quality of life.

]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:40:51 UTC 7374844 Anonymous [Signature #64] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7374659?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:18:46 UTC 7374659 Anonymous [Signature #63] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7373898?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:24:27 UTC 7373898 Anonymous [Signature #62] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7361980?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:04:40 UTC 7361980 Graham Thomas [Signature #61] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7354686?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:22:33 UTC 7354686 Gerard Ockerse [Signature #60] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7352401?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:51:16 UTC 7352401 Anonymous [Signature #59] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7347817?utm_medium=rss "DEB: proposed by the unelected, debated by the ignorant, voted on by the absent.”

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:23:25 UTC 7347817 Anonymous [Signature #58] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7347418?utm_medium=rss Disgusting, wrong, a breech of privacy, completely against the open non commercial foundation of the internet. companies should spend more time pursuing a fair way to make the internet work for them through services such as spotify.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:44:22 UTC 7347418 Symon Chalk [Signature #57] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7344951?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:47:25 UTC 7344951 Jo Secher [Signature #56] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7344926?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:44:23 UTC 7344926 Venetia Rowland [Signature #55] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7344565?utm_medium=rss When will the government actually have people who know what they are proposing, what the implications are and what is the impact. No knoweldge, no good!

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:00:16 UTC 7344565 Andrew Thomson [Signature #54] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7342731?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:19:44 UTC 7342731 Liz Burr [Signature #53] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7342704?utm_medium=rss What with availability of google maps now showing exits and entrances to most people's homes, making it easy for undesirables to look on-line at any weak spots, and hot spots to burgle, don't you think that your time and resources would be best spent elsewhere addressing this and perhaps looking at how badly schools are performing and how genuine improvements could be made.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:17:21 UTC 7342704 Jane Rawson [Signature #52] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7342185?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:23:09 UTC 7342185 Aziz Mohamed [Signature #51] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341885?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:50:27 UTC 7341885 Sarah Baskerville [Signature #50] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341693?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:31:14 UTC 7341693 Felicity Reilly [Signature #49] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341677?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:29:14 UTC 7341677 Vicky Burr [Signature #48] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341571?utm_medium=rss Please immediately repeal the Digital Economy Act at the start of the next parliament, so that it can be appropriately analysed, understood, debated and amended where necessary. This is an important topic and deserves proper consideration and feedback from ALL interested parties (including the public!) not just the music industry, before voting can take place.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:16:42 UTC 7341571 Laura Davis [Signature #47] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341433?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:02:03 UTC 7341433 Chris Rusbridge [Signature #46] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341425?utm_medium=rss There are some reasonable parts of the Act, but the clauses related to disconnection for alleged copyright infringement are a disgrace, contrary to the principle of innocent unless proven guilty, and should be repealed.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:00:26 UTC 7341425 Aaron Rumbold [Signature #45] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341405?utm_medium=rss Disgusting behaviour by Parliament permitting something with this level of impact to get through Parliament without proper consideration or representation (6% attendance)

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:58:03 UTC 7341405 Richard Parsons [Signature #44] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341370?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:54:17 UTC 7341370 Anne McCrossan [Signature #43] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341309?utm_medium=rss Corporates need to recognise the new economics of the digital world, where ideas that spread win, and review their business models. Instead they have resorted to legislation by the back door that criminalises consumers. This bill has not been properly thought though and should be repealed immediately.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:47:57 UTC 7341309 Susan Fairless [Signature #42] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341243?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:43:00 UTC 7341243 Robert Jewitt [Signature #41] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341178?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:37:27 UTC 7341178 Richard Given [Signature #40] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7341141?utm_medium=rss Whether you agree or not with the terms of the Act, this should not have been enacted with so little parliamentary review. It is a topic of significant importance that deserves proper inspection and debate.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:34:20 UTC 7341141 Anonymous [Signature #39] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7335397?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:10:41 UTC 7335397 Mark Blackburn [Signature #38] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7335245?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:45:55 UTC 7335245 d stone [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7335019?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:14:04 UTC 7335019 Bailey Steel [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7334143?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:31:32 UTC 7334143 Oliver White [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7334061?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:15:57 UTC 7334061 Brian Witham [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7333887?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:42:52 UTC 7333887 Nicholas Cotter [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7333506?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:34:11 UTC 7333506 Alastair McKenzie [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7333284?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:52:58 UTC 7333284 Shane Hare [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7333209?utm_medium=rss It is disgusting that this bill was pushed through parliament in the way that it was. O the MPs that actually debated the bill, there was almost universal agreement that there was not enough time to properly debate this bill. The MPs that did not attend the debate did not deserve a vote - the system of voting in the commons needs serious reform before another scandal occurs in this way. Thousands of people saw what happened and are not prepared to accept it.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:41:42 UTC 7333209 Tim Musson [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332927?utm_medium=rss This bill was rushed through much too quickly given the difficult issues it addresses. I'm unsure that its implications were understood by those voting for it.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:58:04 UTC 7332927 Brad Willingham [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332891?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:50:50 UTC 7332891 Matthew Field [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332729?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:21:11 UTC 7332729 gregory sykes [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332697?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:14:31 UTC 7332697 Anonymous [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332629?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:00:20 UTC 7332629 William Heath [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332623?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:59:16 UTC 7332623 Abdul Hussain Azid [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332605?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:56:58 UTC 7332605 Anthony Ainsworth [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332513?utm_medium=rss Sort it out!

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:39:25 UTC 7332513 Jack Saunders [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332487?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:31:36 UTC 7332487 Kathryn OBrien [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332482?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:31:02 UTC 7332482 Stephen McGruer [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332446?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:23:43 UTC 7332446 Sean Rhodes [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332440?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:22:13 UTC 7332440 Paul Berner [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332420?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:18:12 UTC 7332420 David Christie [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332371?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:05:48 UTC 7332371 chris doyle [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332357?utm_medium=rss this single act forever killed democracy in the UK and destroyed people's confidence in parliament. Only a repeal of the digital economy debate and a proper informed debate by people who know what they are talking about will restore confidence. The fiasco was a total and under disgrace, and benefitted only an obsolete music industry, a quango, and the ambulance chasers, and BT, who can now continue to milk an obsolete copper phone network, no bandwidth needed. last one out turn out the lights.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:02:16 UTC 7332357 Seamus Conacher [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332346?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:58:58 UTC 7332346 Evan Jones [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332338?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:56:08 UTC 7332338 Nick Horth [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332316?utm_medium=rss A disgraceful, short-sighted attempt to rush through a law without necessary debate froma full house of MP's. Now, just before the election, is not the time to be pushing through such an important piece of legislation; especially one as ill thought out and problematic as this one.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:50:22 UTC 7332316 Alex Thomson [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332291?utm_medium=rss The Internet & all that surrounds it has led to people, society & business having to evolve & adapt beyond the 60's & 70's.

But Music & Film industry in particular seem to think due to their financial clout & size, that they needn't evolve & that their (steam powered) irrelevant way of thinking is the only way to go!
So like a dinosaur their place in the world is becoming uninhabitable & leading to extinction. (Hence the real reason why the DEB was created)

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:41:22 UTC 7332291 Miles Dumble [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332277?utm_medium=rss The Digital Economy Bill is unworkable, unenforceable and tramples all over our basic human rights.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:36:50 UTC 7332277 Richard Chiswell [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332258?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:29:32 UTC 7332258 Cyrus Lyons [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332252?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:28:06 UTC 7332252 Philip Hands [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332249?utm_medium=rss The government (and official opposition) care more about pandering to their rich friends in the copyright exploitation industry than they do about making the UK voting system fairer, as can be seen by the fact that they dropped a bill for electoral reform, and decided to force through badly thought out regulation of the Internet as though it was an emergency, which it clearly isn't.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:27:55 UTC 7332249 Kirk Moore [Signature #7] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332242?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:25:34 UTC 7332242 john lee [Signature #6] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332230?utm_medium=rss A travesty of an act only surpassed by the anti democratic way it was pushed through parliament. Written by & for the music industry then sponsored by an Un-elected crook Lord Mandelson. A man twice sacked from Govt.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:21:54 UTC 7332230 Jonathan Fisher [Signature #5] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332227?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:21:25 UTC 7332227 Jamie Dowling [Signature #4] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332207?utm_medium=rss A flawed piece of legislation written not by Parliament but by lobbyists for the self serving music industry. There is nothing democratic about this legislation; it must be repealed.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:13:23 UTC 7332207 Jack Allnutt [Signature #3] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332204?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:12:36 UTC 7332204 Craig McLeod [Signature #2] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332195?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:09:45 UTC 7332195 Katy Bairstow [Signature #1] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7332184?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:06:08 UTC 7332184