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andygrif · 12-10-2004, 11:13

I would imagine the opinion of ntl would vary according to who you spoke to...for example:

Marketing department see p2p as a selling point of the broadband service (and still think the service has no limit)

Network department don't like you using their bandwidth

Legal department could not possibly condone the illegal breaches of copyright.

And to clarify about the BPI suing people for using p2p - at this stage they have applied to the courts to force ISPs in this country to reveal the identity of 28 IP addresses and if sucessful will commence legal proceedings against those people.

These 28 are amongst the worst offenders when it comes to sharing copyrighted material, not those that only download.

The problem is that the government minister for arts has publicly lent her support to such action, which in my opinion (and I am against illegal p2p) is wrong. This is a civil case and not in contravention of any criminal law, therefore should not be of concern to the government - but as she's said what she's said it is quite likely the courts will agree with the BPI and force the ISPs to reveal these people's identities.

If (or more likely when) this happens you can expect a second round to begin fairly soon afterwards.

Personally I feel they should be more concerned with people selling counterfeit CDs which is far more damaging to the industry, but then that doesn't scare music lovers so has little effect - and file sharers are far easier to catch.

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andygrif Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,820	Re: NTL's opinion on Filesharing I would imagine the opinion of ntl would vary according to who you spoke to...for example: Marketing department see p2p as a selling point of the broadband service (and still think the service has no limit) Network department don't like you using their bandwidth Legal department could not possibly condone the illegal breaches of copyright. And to clarify about the BPI suing people for using p2p - at this stage they have applied to the courts to force ISPs in this country to reveal the identity of 28 IP addresses and if sucessful will commence legal proceedings against those people. These 28 are amongst the worst offenders when it comes to sharing copyrighted material, not those that only download. The problem is that the government minister for arts has publicly lent her support to such action, which in my opinion (and I am against illegal p2p) is wrong. This is a civil case and not in contravention of any criminal law, therefore should not be of concern to the government - but as she's said what she's said it is quite likely the courts will agree with the BPI and force the ISPs to reveal these people's identities. If (or more likely when) this happens you can expect a second round to begin fairly soon afterwards. Personally I feel they should be more concerned with people selling counterfeit CDs which is far more damaging to the industry, but then that doesn't scare music lovers so has little effect - and file sharers are far easier to catch.