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UK takes extreme measures for Music Piracy..
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| Kinezi |
Yes, the next time you are downloading your favorite 'Benny Bennassi - Satisfaction' vedio or 'Shaggy - Mr Lomba Lomba Bombastik!' track from P2P than think about it again.. your parents might get the 'letter'..
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Parents targeted over children's music piracy !!
Teenagers who use the internet to download music illegally will trigger warning letters to their parents under a Government-brokered deal.
Britain's six largest internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to send warning letters to hundreds of thousands of customers whose accounts are being used to download or share pirated songs.
Many will be received by the unsuspecting parents of a generation of children who have come to see music as a free commodity, thanks to illegal filesharing services.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is expected to claim the deal is a victory its war on filesharing, which has dented CD sales and severely damaged the music industry.
The six internet companies are BT, BSkyB, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse, which sells broadband access under the AOL and Talk Talk brands.
They have signed a memorandum of understanding which commits them to sending "informative letters" to customers whose accounts have been identified by the BPI as being used for filesharing.
It is estimated that there are more than six million illegal filesharers in the UK and the majority are aged under 24.
Experts said the deal between the BPI and the web companies could have a significant impact even though the service providers will only send letters to a proportion of accounts identified as being used for filesharing.
"The parents of teenagers are the music industry's best target by a long shot," said Mark Mulligan of Jupiter Research. "Either they won't know what has been happening and be shocked, or will have been turning a blind eye and suddenly decide they have to do something."
The agreement will stop short of the BPI's call for ISPs to cut off repeat offenders. However, the media regulator Ofcom is expected to be asked by the Government to broker a deal on how repeat offenders should be dealt with.
The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform is also set to publish a consultation on proposed new legislation which would require ISPs to crack down on filesharing.
ISPs are seeking to show they are willing to take action against file sharers and work with the music industry in a bid to avoid legislation.
BSkyB this week unveiled plans for a new legal music download service targeted at families.
Virgin Media, the UK's largest provider of home broadband, has already agreed to send out thousands of letters during a 10-week trial.
A spokesman for the BPI, who refused to comment on any deal, said: "We have always maintained that a partnership is the right way to tackle illegal filesharing, as we showed with our education campaign with Virgin Media. Clearly there is still much work to be done, but we are getting ever closer to a future for digital music where creativity and copyright are respected.
"We have looked to ISPs to acknowledge their responsibility to help deal with illegal filesharing, engage in communicating the issue to their customers, and put in place procedures necessary to effectively tackle repeated unlawful filesharing. Achieving this would represent a significant step forward and demonstrate clearly the collective will that exists to tackle this serious issue."
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| Final Call |
| That still doesn't mean . I'm pretty sure everyone is going to keep on downloading everyday as usual. |
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| Spacey Orange |
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| Acton |
| But what if Daddy bans you from using the internet? :eek: |
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| kr00t0n |
Pffft, bloody children.
Get your own connections and bear the risk yourself like the rest of us adults :p |
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| Viber |
| "the music industry":rolleyes: |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | | Many will be received by the unsuspecting parents of a generation of children who have come to see music as a free commodity, thanks to illegal filesharing services. |
don't know why, but that phrase bothers me :conf: |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Man, I bet my dad would be mad if he found out I was enjoying music. |
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| Ian |
lolz purple. why so mad? it doesn't even involve your country :rolleyes:
And another idea coming in is the following......
Moves to revolutionise music downloading, including a plan to scrap the current system of paying for each track and charge an annual fee instead were unveiled today.
The Government is consulting with the music and internet industries on whether charging an annual subscription - of say £30 - for unlimited legal access to music, could help stamp out illegal downloading and file sharing.
It would also allow a larger share of the revenue from downloading to be channelled back to the original artists.
Most lawful downloads from sites such as Apple's iTunes Store cost 79p for a single track or £7.99 to £9.99 for an entire album. It is hoped the new scheme would persuade most people that it is not worth breaking the law to get access to music.
It is estimated that 6.5 million Britons illegally downloaded music last year and the practice is expected to cost the industry up to £1billion over the next five years.
The plans for an annual fee is one of the proposals drawn up by business minister Baroness Vadera after talks with the six biggest internet service providers, regulator Ofcom and representatives of the music and film industries. The Government wants to avoid a draconian French system whereby persistent offenders have their broadband disconnected after two warnings.
Business Secretary John Hutton said: "This is an intelligent approach to tackling unlawful file-sharing by industry and ISPs. It tells consumers what they can do, rather than just what they can't."
Under the proposal, a letter will be sent to the registered user of an internet account which has been identified as having shared copyrighted material unlawfully and will point the consumer to other sources of material available legally. |
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| saluyamo |
| How exactly do they know whats illegal and whats not? |
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| )(Gravitek |
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How exactly do they know whats illegal and whats not? |
yeah good question, with sites like beatport that lack DRM how can they tell you downloaded it illegally or bought it? Even if it is in a /Shared Music folder or something, that doesn't necessarily mean it was downloaded with the p2p client... |
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| ReclusNdangrmnt |
Being that they will send letters to people that are participating, it doesn't really matter whether or not the music was purchased, it's still being sent out.
A LETTER?! OHSHI WE'RE SCREWED NOW! |
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