The “to be forced to” is important guys! An ISP could just give the personal details of people accused of file sharing if they can make an agreement with the Majors & Co…

The government is set to introduce a powerful new independent body with the tough new powers to combat internet piracy.

The new body will be able to have users who consistently use the internet to illegally download films and music cut off by their Internet Service Providers (ISP).

The move would see internet companies, film and record makers and the government teaming up to see that customers are monitored.

It is based on a similar body that was set up in France in November 2007.

Information about persistent pirates would be passed along to the new body who would warn the customer that they may be disconnected from their ISP if the piracy continues.

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Movie, game and music producers have been calling for such action for several years.

They cite the ‘IFPI digital music report’ which states that for every legal music download there are 20 illegal downloads of the same material.

Kicking repeat offenders off the net is seen as more of a deterrent to internet pirates than those currently offered by the legal system.

Chief Executive of the IFPI, John Kennedy went on record stating: “It was about time internet service providers took responsibility for file shares”.

Found this on Supanets Homepage (www.supanet.com)

Looks like things are looking bleak for us British File Sharers

i think ill move to sweden now thank you

Europe works top-down. Everything what’s been decided on European level, has to be implemented on national level. A European High Court ruling is an interpretation, and should be considered as a European law.

IP-addresses are already considered as being personal information (privacy), so they cannot be given away, unless crime comitted. That’s a quite watertight situation we’re in.

Sure, they’ll try, but then, let’s take that to the European High Court. Before, we only had a law that could’ve been interpreted one way or another, this said how it should be interpreted.

So, until laws are changed, on European level, we’re quite safe. That is, privacy for you and your friend, large scale piracy is a crime, so that’s another story.

Large scale privacy is wrong. Why should we change one corrupt corporation for another, even worse, organisation. I share because money should go to the artists, and extended (but a small %) to the ones that add value, not to some label.

It should be as if it were street musicians. I decide wether I pay or not, and the amount.

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© needs to die.

The people who hail to the EU due this non-event are worse than morons. They’d probably kill their grandma for a lolipop. The only good thing about the EU is that it’s maybe, just maybe, for the very moment, slightly more humane than the China or even the USA. Nonetheless, the EU is busy catching up and every single member is slowly turning into a police state and almost every political decision is the result of lobbyism.