Digital Britain report released

The long-awaited Digital Britain report, setting out the government's stance on issues such as universal broadband and peer-to-peer file-sharing, has been issued.

However, it is already under fire for its promise to bring 2Mbps broadband to every household in the UK by 2012.

According to analyst Ian Fogg of Forrester Research "delivering 2Mbps speeds as a universal service obligation by 2012 is yesterday's speeds tomorrow".

Digital Britain: Main points

James Parker of comparison site Moneysupermarket.com agreed.

"Internet users are increasingly accessing bandwidth-heavy services like streaming high-quality video, and our research shows a significant majority already find 2Mbps too slow for many of these services," Parker said.

The report also outlined how the government would tackle the problem of peer-to-peer file-sharing.

Culture minister Ben Bradshaw said that the government would introduce legislation to deal with music piracy, giving industry watchdog Ofcom more powers to deal with offenders.

However, Geoff Taylor chief executive of the BPI, which represents the music industry, said: "The government appears to be anticipating its failure by lining up backstop powers for Ofcom to introduce technical measures later," referring to the media regulators new powers to over see illegal file-sharing.