What's right with the "groundbreaking" UK P2P compromise

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Major music labels in the UK are crowing about a "groundbreaking" new agreement with the six largest ISPs in the country.

Under the terms of the deal, negotiated with the help of the UK government, the ISPs will send sternly-worded warning letters to suspected illegal file-swappers.

While any such deal will generate the predictable outrage in the usual quarters, this is actually a fair approach to the issue, and one that could have been a lot worse.

Full story here: What's right with the "groundbreaking" UK P2P compromise

solaris · **More on this issue these two places... -** 07-24-2008, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by solaris

Full story here: What's right with the "groundbreaking" UK P2P compromise

More background stuff here: BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal

and here: Slyck News - BPI and ISPs Agree to challenge P2P Piracy in the UK

solaris · **Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy -** 07-24-2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by solaris

More background stuff here: BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal

and here: Slyck News - BPI and ISPs Agree to challenge P2P Piracy in the UK

And even more here: Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy - Times Online

Mellifluous · 07-25-2008, 10:23 PM

Glad to see my ISP is not among them. If they were, I'd cancel my subscription with them out of principal.

viracocha · **The Register's opinion on this issue -** 07-29-2008, 10:46 PM

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Full story here: What's right with the "groundbreaking" UK P2P compromise

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Rejoice! "Three strikes and you're out" is dead in the UK. Music file sharers will no longer face the threat of seeing the household broadband connection severed.

The plague that is currently endemic in France won't be jumping the English Channel.

For confirmation, you only need to turn to page 30 of the Government's Consultation paper on Legislative Options to address illicit P2P file sharing, announced with much fanfare yesterday by the business ministry BERR, and accompanied by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business. You'll find the death notice in the section labelled "Sanctions".

"In order to persuade people to stop using illicit P2P services some kind of appropriate sanction must be found," notes the Department. "The MOU envisages ISPs committing to a trial of writing to infringing users pointing out that the infringement has occurred, has been detected and is unlawful."

More here: Who killed Three Strikes for filesharing? | The Register