The enemies of filesharing are sneaking about folks, despite recent government climb downs on any proposed penalties.
http://torrentfreak.com/government-holds-a-gun-to-the-head-of-isps-over-p2p-080623/The British government appears to be running out of patience with ISPs as they struggle to come to an agreement with the music industry on P2P music piracy. One ‘top-level’ ISP executive says “The British government just put a gun to our head.” Major ISPs are now in “serious” talks with the music industry.
Now, according to a Digital Music News report, the British government has started urgently applying pressure to prominent ISPs to find a solution to the ‘problem’ of file-sharing. The pressure includes a threat to bring in new laws, should ISPs and the music industry not come to a solution of their own.
The government previously set a deadline of April 2009 for the parties to reach an agreement but according to sources, pressure is intensifying to deal with the issue sooner.
I,m sure we will see a lot of big bad wolf talk but the facts of the matter are clear and the government knows it, they cannot in all honesty attack any independant distribution chain for personal works, shaking the big stick and claiming evryone is breaking copyright law may sound impressive but the reality is any such attacks will hit a roadblock found in the human rights act as the government has been informed already, we are not all breaking the law and such threats as this serve only to undermine democracy, our rights to free speech and to share our own creative works and ideas, are not for sale.
