Who killed Three Strikes for filesharing?

[p2p rules]

Rejoice! "Three strikes and you're out" is dead in the UK. Music file sharers will no longer face the threat of seeing the household broadband connection severed. The plague that is currently endemic in France won't be jumping the English Channel.

For confirmation, you only need to turn to page 30 of the Government's Consultation paper on Legislative Options to address illicit P2P file sharing, announced with much fanfare yesterday by the business ministry BERR, and accompanied by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business. You'll find the death notice in the section labelled "Sanctions".

"In order to persuade people to stop using illicit P2P services some kind of appropriate sanction must be found," notes the Department. "The MOU envisages ISPs committing to a trial of writing to infringing users pointing out that the infringement has occurred, has been detected and is unlawful."

theregister.co.uk

[Janz]

Well I'm following this scenario closely and there is strong opposition to the Three Strikes rule, so we shall see. But in the meantime there are ways you can put your thoughts across and I refer to this article today:

EU internet proposals raise civil liberty fears - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/eu-internet-proposals-raise-civil-liberty-fears-877988.html

"Martyn Warwick, editor of Telecom TV, a specialist online television channel, said: "[It's] like suing the Post Office for not knowing what's in all the letters and parcels it delivers.

"Libertarians in Europe have picked up on this huge threat to privacy but so far in the UK no one seems to be aware of the dangers to personal liberty."

Telecom TV is running a campaign with the aim of putting pressure on MEPs to amend the measures."

http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=43568&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10



The UK government last week announced an agreement with the country's six ISPs for a draft Bill on the issue of copyright-breaking file-sharing. The Government wants the ISPs to adopt a code of practice to try to combat the problem. But the pressure groups argue that the same legislation would force ISPs to break their obligations to their own users, by sharing information posted by them online. However, the ISPs claim they have no intention of enforcing a "three strikes" law.


Interesting reading...