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Re: UK ISPs agree to illegally file-share their users' records
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:55:38 -0700
________________________________________ From: WWWhatsup [joly () punkcast com] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:17 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] UK ISPs agree to illegally file-share their users' records According to today's Register it appears that there has been a definite backpedal. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25/three_strikes_dead_hurrah A Government paper 'Legislative Options to address illicit P2P file sharing', announced by the business ministry BERR, was accompanied by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business. * No disconnections. * ISPs to write nastygrams to egregious infringers. * No national database of same. * Ofcom to form a group to study traffic management, filtering, flags, legal recourses. * Four month deadline. I wrote:
Radio conversation noted by a UK blogger: "This is just a deal with the major service providers" "So, if I have teenagers who download music from the net, do I want to move to one of the smaller service providers, then?" Evan Davis talking to Nicholas Lambton on Today, a couple of minutes ago. <http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2008/07/and-theres-loophole.html>
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