UK to ban filesharers from the net?
A report in the Times this morning is getting a lot of coverage. It states that the UK government intends to legislate to require ISPs to take action against individuals using their networks for file-sharing activities.
Quite how the government expects ISPs to monitor every bit of traffic that passes through their network is anyone’s guess. It is again indicative of the music industry’s insistence on spending their money on lobbying for legislation to protect a failing business model, rather than adapting to the changing face of music.
Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group (an organisation for which I volunteer) is appearing opposite the BPI on Radio 4’s World at One to discuss the story. ORG will no doubt be responding to any future consultation.
For further reading on the story, I recommend Techcrunch UK, Techcrunch, the always excellent Techdirt and BBC News’ Darren Waters.
UPDATE: ORG have a post about this story.