This tweet sums up the situation best "Having parliament talk about filesharing is like having gay guys talk about vagina. They don't really get it, and they don't want to."

I watched the debate on parliament tv tonight and the lack of understanding of many of the ministers was very disheartening, It's technically not going to be possible to prove guilt or innocence for downloading pirated content via torrents. The decision to push it through in urgency is equally outrageous.

There was one lone MP opposed who certainly seemed to "get it" and he gave a very good speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLHJYWa9iDM