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  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has said 'disconnection from the net is a form of imprisonment', and known as the Digital Economy Act, which could allow families to be deprived of internet access, 'worrying'.
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Speaking at an event to mark the 350th day of remembrance of the Royal Society in London, Sir Tim said there were globular trends that were confining the exemption of the internet.'Governments are granting themselves the right to turn off the internet,' he said, citing Britain´s Digital Economy Act, French moves to switch off a household´s web connectedness for a year if it is found to have been used twice to infringe a copyright, and a coming American bid to censor which websites are visible to US citizens.
Sir Tim claimed that a right to the freedom to access the internet could even be linked back to Magna Carta. 'It is constitutionally serious to impoverish someone from the web - it requires thought in the law,' he said. 'Magna Carta says that no free man shall be deprived of liberty without due process'.
The way in which the Digital Economy Act will be implemented has yet to be established, and the Act is itself being challenged in court. But Sir Tim is among a number of experts concerned that internet service providers and copyright holders will be able to get people disconnected from the web simply by accusing consumers of breaking the law.
'When you perpetrate a crime you lose rights,' said Sir Tim. 'If you think about the category of crime for which you´d be imprisoned, stealing a DVD for the first time would surely not be one. Yet we´re talking about possibly disconnecting a whole family because a child has downloaded something. It seems to me to be excessive and impractical. The things which are being proposed at the moment are perilously crossing the boundaries of people´s net rights.'

  
   
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