Britain's six largest ISPs and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing
 

Virgin Media no longer all alone.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ic-piracy.html

Britain's six largest internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to send warning letters to hundreds of thousands of customers whose accounts are being used to download or share pirated songs.

The six internet companies are BT, BSkyB, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse, which sells broadband access under the AOL and Talk Talk brands.

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Just a friendly note, remember that the thread discussing VM's agreement with the BPI ended up being locked.

Let's make sure that this one sticks to the point & doesn't drift into discussing the legality or otherwise of copyrighted filesharing.

Thanks...

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I wonder how much money these isp's are going to lose, when those who use p2p either leave for another isp, or downgrade to the slowest available speed.

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A lot less money than they would if the government legislated and there arn't many cheap alternatives to the ISP's listed.

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The six all the ones who have oversubscribed so its not thier fault its the customers.

who is Feargal Sharkey anyway.......some guy who wants to get back on tv, like all those clebs who are "has beens" so much for his song "Teenage kicks".

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Just someone who's been there and so knows the business I suppose. Perhaps a better representative or spokesman than someone who hasn't.

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What made Carphone Warehouse change their minds?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7329801.stm

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arm twisting most likely

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I bet the BPI is about to come to some sort of agreement with them all over a legal download service in return for this. ;)

Either that or the BPI has been threatening to drag them into court

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funny really how the BPI have big pockets for this when they claim the filesharing takes so much cash out of the artists pockets. Anyone see the irony of an organization worth billions spending millions to stop the loss probably an equal amount

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As noted Here

It's not just about sending warning letters.

ISP's can now throttle any users who are caught out downloading music etc, or put data caps on them specifically, that's why talk talk has now agreed to it.

Good justification for VM's STM then :rolleyes:

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He's spent much of his recent career spotting and encouraging new talent in various jobs in the record industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feargal_Sharkey

Provided that it's illegal downloaders that are targeted I personally have no worries about this.I always thought it was inevitable that ISPs would be dragged into doing something even if it stopped short of what the BPI wanted.

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Ah I see now people who get letters could be put on 24/7 STM. That is not good :(

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And not just from VM.

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So all those who have just left Virgin to go to any of those six over the BPI letters are in for a shock ;)