Six of the UK’s biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online. The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music. Hard core file-sharers could see their broadband connections slowed, under measures proposed by the UK government. BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, which represents the music industry, said: “All of the major ISPs in the UK now recognise they have a responsibility to deal with illegal file-sharers on their networks.” The plan commits the firms to working towards a “significant reduction” in the illegal sharing of music.

In addition to this chance, parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms to fight online piracy. Households that ignore warnings will be subjected to online surveillance and their internet speeds will be reduced, making it very difficult for them to download large files. The measures, the first of their kind in the world, will be announced today by Baroness Vadera, who brokered the deal between internet service providers and Ofcom, the telecoms body. About 6.5 million Britons are thought to have downloaded music illegally last year. It has been estimated that illegal downloads will cost the music industry alone £1 billion over the next five years.

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Six of the UK's bigest net providers have announced that they want to drive customers away from their service. the deal between the net providers and the music industry (or both at the same time like virgin who payed a small fortune to make a deal with themselves) brokered by baroness millionair nobody, will see thousands of pounds spent on letters that will instantly be thrown in the bin along with the subsciptions for the ISP's. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, which represents the music industry, said: “All of the major ISPs in the UK now recognise they have a responsibility to give up revenue not only by messing up the music industry, but by forcing customers off their networks to less stringent ISP's" The plan commits the firms to working towards a “significant reduction" in revenue for the ISP's and no real impact on piracy or any improvement to the flailing record industy.

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expect this lunacy to start happening worldwide.

overbyte: closed networks

expect Deep Packet Inspection on everything you up/download =)

the isps really dont like the intrusion, in the US they are just using it as a means to charge more(go figure)...from what ive read they plan to tier their service plans depending on how much you up/download
i honestly wouldn't mind paying more as i do use crazy amounts of bandwidth compared to some old lady playing online bingo...
that said~once people truly "understand" the concept of what te RIAA is trying to do(monitor all internet usage) they wont stand for it
I know most people tend to be sheepish and uncaring about a lot of things but privacy is not one of them.
(except of course for the wiretapping crap after 911...did i mention people tend to be sheepish?)

what is it biff? how is it dpi-proof?

strange guy the developer... there should be an updated version/completely new thing out soon, but everyone is still waiting

info here: http://www.haxial.com/products/kdx/

apparently this is supposed to be good. It looks quite interesting, eh?

carracho still works.


and yeah, rbernato. i always thought that the KDX folks were like "eh, we don't need to make it pretty, the Apocalypse will arrive and we'd have wasted our time on fripperies". .... or something.. : heh

interesting app, chicken.. i'll check it out, too. thanks.



legislating and regulating against pirates is about as effective as doing the same against pigeons.

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fucking frogblast man

Sneakernet!

Wasn't there a lady over here in the UK who managed to beat a lawsuit against her for downloading files by saying it was an invasion of her privacy, and therefore an infringement of her human rights?
How does this new law avoid that?

isnt vpn safe?

at a guess, torrents. easiest, i would have thought. they can collect loads of IPs pretty quickly.