Illegal Music Downloaders To Face Internet Ban?

People
who illegally download music or films may have their internet access
cut off under a new plan drawn up by the government in the UK.

A new Green Paper says that ISPs
(Internet Service Providers) should be required to take action against
those who use the internet to acquire pirated material.

Users would first be sent an email warning them followed by a
suspension if they carry on and finally the termination of their
contract under the ‘three strikes’ rule.

The paper is due to be published next week
but have been reported by the Times who say that ISPs who fail to
enforce the rules could be prosecuted.

The consultation documentation reportedly says: "We will move to legislate to require internet service providers to take action on illegal file sharing."

A spokesman for A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and
Sport said: "Early drafts of our creative economy programme document
were circulated to stakeholders for comment.

"The
content and proposals for the strategy have been significantly
developed since then and a comprehensive plan to bolster the UK's
creative industries will be published shortly.
"We will not comment on the content of the leaked document."

An estimated six million people are year download files illegally in
the UK while music and film companies say they are losing millions as a
result.

According to the BBC ISPs such as Virgin, Tiscali
and BT have already been in talks with the entertainment industry about
introducing a voluntary piracy policing scheme.

However,
several stumbling blocks exist including the fact that ISPs claim that
people are “piggybacking” their service in order to download files.

Thanks for the info to Gigwise.com.

wow it's huge! do you think that would be implemented in mauritius as well?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm

No one can stop pirates... they'll just find a new way to circumvent the ban...

As for Mauritius, MT already has torrent headers... but i don't see this being implemented anywhere in the near future.

i think the mauritian population of downloaders is too small to make a difference, that's why there's a long way before local isps decide to do something like that :Z

carrotmadman6 wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm

No one can stop pirates... they'll just find a new way to circumvent the ban...

As for Mauritius, MT already has torrent headers... but i don't see this being implemented anywhere in the near future.

mane those new regulations would really suck!

http://torrentfreak.com/illegal-downloaders-will-not-face-uk-ban-080212/