The UK's Digital Economy Act (DEA) was meant to make pirates quake in their boots, but so far it has failed to shiver any timbers. Parliamentarians, policymakers and industry leaders gathered at a seminar in London this week to ask why. The guilty-looking elephant in the room turned out to be the DEA itself. It is currently languishing in Brussels, waiting for the European Commission to approve changes to who should should pay for implementing it. Meanwhile the code drawn up by Ofcom a year ago to lay out how it will work in practice is lying in a drawer in the Department of Culture. Read the full story here:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15390021
