U.K. ISPs Tackle File-Sharing

[PV5150]

BERR turns up the heat on illegal file-sharing

Details in the news article

 

[Rastalovich]

Are they sure they can differentiate between "illegal sharing" and the likes of the BBCiPlayer, ITV`s thing, Sky`s... iTunes stuff..

Afaik, just to take the iPlayer as an example, if I download a solid weeks worth of shows and watch them with deletion, those files are open for p2p access, as is how the system works.

Is this just a smoke screen for identifying plainly high bandwidth users and stopping them ? Using a threatening stance, covered by legalitees. - whilst at the same time the ISPs attempt to save face with the simple answer - "we were against this, so don`t blame us".

 

[Nick R]

I would've used the limewire icon rather than the napster icon.

The issue is if they do start doing this, there are going to be a lot of false positives and you aren't going to be able to do anything about it.

 

[Bungral]

Napster was one of the earliest and biggest profile services to get shut down due to piracy so it is an apt picture.

 

[chefinal]

will the isp's follow through with anything though cause listening to the radio they was saying they would send warning letters but wouldn't shut down anyones net or take any further action. I guess they don't want to loose moeny

 

[mrapoc]

make a cheap enough music provider and it will work

but cds imo are too expensive...then theres the downloads costing more than a cd :S waht!!!1

 

[ionicle]

sodding ISPs

sodding illigalness

what about people who downloads loads legally

this just isnt right

for the sake of their network traffic

immoral

s, the lot of them

 

[Nick R]

ISPs have to do more work for a goal that means less profit. There is no real reason for them to do it.

 

[PP Mguire]

will the isp's follow through with anything though cause listening to the radio they was saying they would send warning letters but wouldn't shut down anyones net or take any further action. I guess they don't want to loose moeny

I believe thats just a way of saying were only doing this to get the retards off our backs so dont worry about it.

I gues the 5-0 is getting kinda fiesty over there. +1 for the US i suppose.