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It looks like the carte blanche crackdown we feared on P2P file sharing is gathering momentum... News is breaking today that six of the country's largest ISPs have agreed to deals with the BPI to monitor and warn customers about the illegal file sharing of copyright materials. BSkyB, BT Retail, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and the ever willing Virgin Media are the providers in question and between them they represent approximately 90 per cent of all UK broadband connections so this is most certainly a sea change. The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and BERR are also aboard creating a truly unholy and intimidating alliance. Under the new agreement signatories are committed to development consumer education programmes and developing legal online services but - in the words of the BPI: "Most importantly, for... [read full story]
