"On top of that, the UK government did its own study and found that the costs were even higher than the ISPs estimated and the cost of implementing the bill would outstrip even the most ridiculous of BPI's estimates of "losses" from file sharing."
The UK Government did not find that the costs were "even higher than the ISPs estimated". The UK Times story that you lifted for your December 28th 2009 piece, and reference again here, didn't make clear that the £500m estimated total costs, lifted from the UK Government's Impact Assessment document, were over TEN years, not annually.
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The UK Government did not find that the costs were "even higher than the ISPs estimated". The UK Times story that you lifted for your December 28th 2009 piece, and reference again here, didn't make clear that the £500m estimated total costs, lifted from the UK Government's Impact Assessment document, were over TEN years, not annually.
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