Virgin likely to lose 800 customers by colluding with BPI over file-sharing
Thousands of UK broadband users who share music tracks illegally may receive letters warning them of the consequences. Music trade body the BPI claims to have already identified and contacted about 800 Virgin Media customers who have been sharing copyrighted material (this despite it being impossible to tell what files are being shared). Virgin has agreed to send the letters to those customers, informing them that what they are doing is illegal.
The BPI wants Internet providers to agree to cut off people who repeatedly ignore the warnings, and this is where it could get very interesting: the BPI is warning that it may sue other ISPs who refuse to co-operate with its demands, despite there being no legal requirement on ISPs to do as they are being ordered to by the music industry. And some ISPs have already made it clear they will not comply.
tags: BPI, BT, file-sharing, music piracy, P2P, Phorm, Virgin MediaEeny meeny miny mo, catch an iPod user, don’t let him go…
The G8 is, for those who don’t know, an international undemocratic gestalt made up of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, they cook up new ways to manipulate and control people, trade, and money markets.
The G8 famously tell lies about how they’re going to tackle world poverty but then—after near enough promising on their mother’s graves—don’t do much at all other than make excuses. Now the G8 is cooking up draconian new copyright protection laws. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between the US, EU, and Canada, will give border guards the right to seize our iPods and mobile phones whenever they suspect they contain illegal downloads.
tags: choons, civil liberties, crime, Digital Rights Management, downloads, file-sharing, freedom, G8, games, Internet Service Providers, mp3, piracy, video
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