ISPs will be required to hand over offender’s account details as a 70 per cent cut in piracy is demanded
Regulating body Ofcom is to be given the power to demand that ISPs hand over account information concerning people who persist is sharing files over the internet.
ISPs will also be required to inform users that their inappropriate activity must cease, and will be encouraged to cut the connections of the biggest offenders.
All of this comes from the government’s Digital Britain report, which will require ISPs to cut file sharing on their networks by 70 per cent in the next 12 months. The Report was light on specifics, but does signify the government’s most aggressive ever drive to quash the rise in internet piracy.
A consultation period will take place shortly in which details and an action plan can be thrashed out.
The early response from ISPs has been largely negative, with some voicing concerns about the cost of these new requirements and others expressing discomfort at the idea of harvesting and handing out user’s personal information.
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please please
please actually deliver on this, i want to see some people being prosecuted, IP bans the whole thing, in my area xbox 360 flashing, R4, and wii flashing is so bad, and it just spreads, people help each other download and tell each other how to flash, where to buy the chips from, who can fit them etc etc, things need to change, its even easier now with the internet, youtube even have tutorials showing you how to do it
Nonsense
this will never work, they should have done this a long long time ago.
But what about accessing TV content
What about people who want to access content not available in the UK such as TV shows that don't get aired over here? In this instance I believe file sharing is acceptable.
Reply to gem
That is a very good point about the american tv shoes and so on as this would not be classed as a break in copy-right!
Well said hun xx
Make it opt-in
I have worked for both an ISP and a security company, In my view, most Joe Public need protection as soon as they get broadband.
All they need day 1 is Port 80 and 443, opt-in for mail on 25, 110.
Anything else is like handing a child a loaded Glock.
If Joe P is sufficiently savvy, he should be able to log on to the ISP's management page and select which ports he wants opened for his connection, with suitable admonishments. Then if he insists on file sharing, its a deliberate act, and he can expect a visit from the Man, but innocent users of 4OnDemand would automatically be protected from KonTiki abusing their bandwidth.
There will always be...
Crime! We will never irradicate it - only stem it for a while. Deal with it!
Well
if it is online it will be hacked and stolen...
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