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Originally Posted by Kymmy
The goverment aren't involved with the BPI/ISP collaberation, in fact the goverments privacy laws are probably the only thing stopping them.
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Well, that's not totally correct. The government have put significant pressure on ISP's to work with the BPI and other rights holders representatives, otherwise they have said that they will force legislation.
This latest deal, was brokered by BERR.
Here.
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Six of the UK's biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online.
The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music...
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I have, in that OTHER thread offered my views on the subject, both as an Internet user and an interested party. In my opinion what this represents in this first stage is basically a carpet bombing exercise without any collateral damage. If that doesn't significantly "educate" Internet users in the UK, and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't, the next stage will likely see the worst offenders in each of the big six getting court orders dropping through the door.
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Originally Posted by Berealwith
ok this might be a numpty way of looking at things. Say i make quite a few say a few gigs of dummy files, some look like a full cd and lots of single dummy files all names different but have song artists names and do not download anything say from limewire. I then allow people to upload from me. Then a few more do it and a few more would that be wrong ? and could i get a letter ? if so what for? and somewhere along the line i am sure it would fill thier inbox up with spam...
And doesn't channel 4 use p2p for it tv ? would you get a letter for that ?
Who knows i don't use p2p but its the start and in a few years time we could all be under the ISP's boot.
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Would it be wrong? Probably not, but extremely annoying for other sharers
Could you get a letter? Very unlikely. Part of the evidence gathering actually requires the files to be examined for content, in other words if the file says it is a work by an artist then that has to be confirmed by listening to it, you can't rights protect a song title.