After a lot of pressure from Britain's music and movie industries and the government, they have managed to persuade six of the country's biggest Internet service providers to start sending warning letters to those suspect of illegal file-sharing, according to this Reuters report. It is estimated that around 6 million people in Britain are involved in illegal file-sharing each year, so the purpose of this is to try and make a significant reduction in this figure.
Under a 3-month trial, these service providers will send letters to the most active downloader’s involved in copyright infringement, warning the users that they are being monitored. After this period, the service providers will then work with rights holders to decide which further options to take based on the outcome of this trial. A few possible options include a "Three Strikes and you're out" system like in France and traffic shaping/filtering to either try slowing down or blocking the transfers of copyright infringing content.
Up until recently, the ISPs refused to cooperate, arguing that they were not responsible for the content being transferred in much the same way that the post office does not examine the contents of its customer's letters and parcels. However, they decided to agree after the government threatened to impose legislation if they did not tackle illegal file sharing. Some analysts reckon that this plan would be most effective at scaring off the younger users who download without their parent's knowledge. However, according to Jupiter analyst Mark Mulligan, while this will likely be the most successful move by the entertainment industry against file sharing, even this will not be enough in the long run.
This move will not replace the existing lawsuit campaign, as the content industries plan keeping its previous method of suing file sharers who share copyrighted content. They also plan developing a range of legal services to help tackle piracy.
It would have been interesting to see how this approach would have worked in the US instead of the RIAA’s notorious lawsuit campaign, particularly as tens of thousands of people have been hit with a lawsuit without any formal letter of warning.
Good for them! That will teach those pirates a real lesson about stealing other people's stuff witout using a darknet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing)
Yes, throw half the world of the Internet. That will help the movie industrie a lot and local economies, and internet providers, and those sending us the electricity bills, and PC manufacturars and resellers...
Let's take away their TV's too so they can no longer watch these movies and then ban them from ability to buy TV's or DVD's and Blu-ray players. That will help local economy, local stores, employment figures, manufacturars...
But don't go too far... ok?
its rather odd that isp's use to look the other way, but now that they're too cheap to invest in infrastructure, they use piracy as an excuse to curb bandwidth consumption, when broadband was new, those were the people they tried to attract... lol
The UK is the most controlled place on earth. Who would want to live their ?
If you don't have something that has SSL, you are asking to be snooped on.
BitRate, a shedload of immigrants want to live here, thats who!
why is anyone even worried its not like there are any empty prison cells to put you in also with the economy so messed up how long u gonna b waiting for legal aid ?to even get seen in the facist court screw em
how long ago did people copy music cassettes and vinyl, no problems with that then. why is it such a prob now, because its digital and there is a lot of greedy people, if i buy a cd or dvd whats anyone going to do if i lend it to a friend?. they want to sell you a ferrari and not break the speed limit ...lol
BigPhil - If the Government didn't give huge welfare handouts to all the illegals and make it so easy they wouldn't go there but what are they doing about the immigration problem? Nothing until the current guy is voted out and the new party gets in! I read something about an Islamic cleric over there who preaches anti-western ideologies, yet lives on a $500 a week welfare handout..like WTF!?!?!
They just waste time on introducing these bs copyright proposals!
I'm glad I don't live there
If only we voters could monitor the contents of those brown paper bags that music and movie industries and other big corporations give to the Politicians and Political parties to get what they want, we would see who the real criminals are.
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