It seems The BPI are up to their usual scare-mongering campaigns against the gullible, illegally no doubt.
http://torrentfreak.com/bpi-crackdown-planned-as-bittorrent-too-easy-080328/The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is said to be planning a BitTorrent clampdown. The trade association, previously heavily involved in the shutdown of OiNK, says that BitTorrent has become “too easy” and is taking aim at what it refers to as ‘larger networks’.
Jollyon Benn, an Internet investigator for the Anti Piracy Unit of the BPI, said that more people than ever are sharing their music collections online because BitTorrent clients are becoming so easy to use. He said: “The latest version of LimeWire includes a BitTorrent client in it and the user interface has got much more friendly. It is opening it up to a lot of people, it all comes down to how easy it is to do these things.”
Most BitTorrent trackers are located outside the ‘jurisdiction’ of the BPI, i.e not in the UK. Granted, this didn’t stop them working with the IFPI to shut down OiNK in the Netherlands, but of course they managed to convince the British police that some criminal activity had been taking place on the site, in order to obtain the identity of the administrator, Alan Ellis.
Since the authorities still haven’t found anything to charge Alan with - many months after his initial arrest - one has to wonder if the BPI will be so lucky in getting home address details so quickly in the future.
Its become a p2p joke that the recording and movie industries will make any claim they feel necessary to obtain the closure of a site, telling the truth would see them sent off with a flea in their ear, but this is the sort of enemy filesharers have, the Cartel have also been very desperate to find something to pressurise Limewire with and this could be it, only time will tell how the dice roll on this one, but as usual dont believe the hype.
