Uk ISP Companies Reply To Conservative's Big Brother Plan

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The organisation representing most of the major UK ISP companies has spoken out strongly against plans revealed earlier on in the week by the Conservative party

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39287968,00.htm

The Internet Service Providers' Association has repeated its assertion that ISPs should not be responsible for any illegal file sharing that takes place over their networks.

Speaking on Wednesday in the wake of a controversial ruling in a Belgian court and comments made by the Conservative leader David Cameron, a spokesperson for ISPA maintained that ISPs should not be "set up to play judge and jury" over alleged copyright infringement.

The court's decision will not be repeated in the UK anytime soon, according to telecoms lawyer Danny Preiskel of Preiskel & Co. "I think we are a way away from reaching a similar decision in the UK in imposing such liability,"  adding that such a case here would be "fiercely resisted" by ISPs

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It seems a shame that unpopular politicians make ludicrous public statements for publicity but seem to forget that the country they wish to run for a four year term is a democracy and they would do better to engage with the populace rather than engage with those companies offering a nice donation to their party funds.

Our thanks in this case go to the ISP companies that are at least looking out for the interests of their subscribers.

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the same david cameron who gets cautioned for smoking on a train not once but 3 times the day after a full scale public smoking ban in enclosed public workplaces comes into effect (never mind smoking on trains has been banned for years anyway)
a guy who has less influence on the public than the krankies
perhaps his pc should be checked for illegal d/loads as well lol

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the other reason isp,s dont want to get involved in policeing copywrite is the simple logistics of it all........
actively monitoring every communication in real time and checking that any data is copywrite protected or not would place a huge strain on any isp.......and of course the accuracy of any list would be suspect as it would be compiled by the cartel and not an independant body as it should be, after all how trust worthy are the cartel................
as has become popular practice is easier to simply block all p2p thru traffic shapeing even thou most of what is being transfered isnt copywrite protected isps simply cant monitor everything.........
and of course by passing this checking would be childs play and the isps know it.............
as an exercise anyone useing winamp can check there files against copywrite protection you will be shocked to see how many of your files aint protected................
reality is the cartel is looseing the war and badly and so are now resorting to any and all means in a futile bid to stop file shareing........
i saw a article on tv about a company that monitors p2p networks in there own estimation there is over a billion files transferd daily and growing.................so much for the cartel and copywrite................