The UK’s [URL=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmbills/089/10089.21-27.html#j4111]Digital Economy Bill[/URL] has been passed by the House of Commons, with MPs okaying the measure in a 189 to 47 vote.

The Bill, which also was granted Royal Assent, makes PEGI the UK’s sole rating system for videogames, introduces a variety of provisions for [URL=http://gamepolitics.com/2010/03/16/lords-pass-digital-economy-bill]dealing with illegal file sharers[/URL], and debuts measures for blocking Internet access to online sites that may promote online copyright infringement.

The latter two procedures drew the ire of the [URL=http://www.openrightsgroup.org/]Open Rights Group[/URL], whose Executive Director Jim Killock [URL=http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/what-we-do-next]wrote[/URL], “What a debacle. Measures to allow disconnection of individuals from the internet, for undefined periods of time, web blocking laws; all with no real scrutiny and limited debate.”
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