Britain's six biggest Internet service providers have agreed to work with the government and music industry to clamp down on illegal downloading, a music industry association said Thursday. ...full story at digg
from digg on Sun, Jul 27 2008
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Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry » slashdot Barence writes "Britain's six leading internet providers have signed a Government-led agreement to stamp out illegal music file sharing. The six providers — BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, Sky and Carphone Warehouse — will implement a... |
| 23 Aug 08 |
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Moore warns against suing file-sharers » digg EA Sports boss Peter Moore has said he doesn't support the move to sue consumers for illegal downloading - warning, "It didn't work for the music industry." |
| 04 Apr 08 |
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UK ISP Says No To Music Industry Pressure » slashdot siloko sends us to the BBC for the story of one ISP standing up to the music industry. (But note that this ISP is one of the ones said to have worked with Phorm on plans to track customers' surfing.) "The head of one of Britain's biggest internet... |
| 04 Aug 08 |
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Music industry ‘should embrace illegal websites’ » digg The music industry should embrace illegal file-sharing websites, according to a study of Radiohead’s last album release that found huge numbers of people downloaded it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little or nothing for i... |
| 06 Jun 08 |
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Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing » the register (uk) Let's make threatening music together Virgin Media will launch a campaign against illegal downloading next week, when it'll begin firing off warning letters to to subscribers that the BPI believes are sharing copyright music files.… |
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