[fredley]

According to other parts of the Digital Economy Bill, it's not actually ISPs that bear the burden, it's Connection service providers, i.e. any service that provides you with a connection - including VPNs. What they'll do to VPN providers that don't comply I don't know - probably they'll find their powers rather limited.

[petepete]

So VPN providers based outside of the UK will have to be blocked and those inside the UK will suffer (or go out of business).

[jdavis703]

How will they enforce this against foreign VPNs? Especially if those VPNs allow for payment via things like Bitcoin.

[fredley]

They probably won't, making this all an exercise in futility.

[ionised]

Yup. My VPN takes cash in the post.