UK ISPs Near Agreement On Illegal File Sharing

ISPreview UK writes "UK Music's chief executive, Feargal Sharkey, claims that progress has been made on a deal between the music industry and broadband ISPs to tackle illegal file sharing. The comments came during yesterday's annual Internet Service Providers' Association conference in Eversheds, with an ISPA spokesman confirming that 'some kind of agreement between rightholders and ISPs can be reached,' adding, 'everyone wants to work together to make legal online models work.' The news follows July's crucial Memorandum of Understanding agreement between copyright holders and six of the UK's largest ISPs, which account for roughly 90% of the country's broadband market. The initial agreement approved a principal of sending warning letters to customers who have been accused of downloading illegal music or movies."

Comments

Re:why the hell

[theaveng]

Lucky us he doesn't have a supermajority (60+ votes) in the Senate, otherwise the Democrats would be unstoppable, and we'd soon be as socialist as China.

Or maybe Australia (with a firewall, "breath test" to search for porn addicts, filtering of content, and so on).

Re:No problem.

[theaveng]

A fan of old movies and old music from the pre-WW2 era.

Re:No problem.

[freedom_india]

I did and i also lost a bet on it.
EUR 100.
I was paranoid and obviously thought that Rove or Bush would be brilliant like Stalin,
By bad.