BPI Requests ISPs Suspend Suspected Filesharers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 10, 2006 @06:47PM from the sounds-like-a-reasonable-approach-overall dept.

MartinJW writes "The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to two of the UKs larger ISPs, Tiscali and Cable & Wireless, asking them to suspend the accounts of 59 users they have identified as 'illegal file sharers.' The BPI says they have 'unequivocal evidence' of IP addresses that were used to upload 'significant quantities' of music. Although the IP addresses were used to identify the ISPs involved, the providers are the only people able to identify the exact individuals responsible. This marks a significant change in the BPI's tactics; previously they have targeted individuals but it seems that they are now taking it one step further and requesting the ISPs take decisive action to uphold the terms in their own 'acceptable use policies.'"

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Re:Not going to be a problem by LubosD · 2006-07-10 21:21 · Score: 0, Troll

I think that most of ISPs will just update their spam filters to automatically delete e-mails from organizations like BPI.

Who pays your ISP? You do, not BPI. So I think that most ISPs will protect their customers and ignore BPI-like organizations (that's current situation in my country).