UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has described the telecom operator’s opposition to the published anti-privacy laws as "quite odd".

Inter service providers, TalkTalk and BT lost a judicial review of the already published Digital Economy Act. The companies say that the process requiring sending of warning letters to accused infringers and cutting off the connection of persistent offenders may be illegal and should not be funded by public sector companies.

"The attitude of the ISPs is quite odd. BT has spent so much time litigating against an act of parliament and fallen at every hurdle, which is a great endorsement of the work officials did in putting the Act together," Vaizey said while speaking at a conference in London.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Hunt, head of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport had called for a massive reform of the Act when he helped push it into law. A spokesman for BT said the ISP had no comment. A spokeswoman for TalkTalk said the ISP hadn't changed its opinion on the Act.