In a major victory for the Government and music industry, Justice Kenneth Parker has ruled against four of the points that BT and TalkTalk raised in their arguments during last month's court case that the Act contravened European law.

The ISPs had claimed the DEA was unlawful because it should have been notified to the EC under the Technical Standards Directive. They also suggested it contravened the E-Commerce Directive, EU directives on data privacy and that it was not a ...