Britain threatens ISPs with possible piracy legislation

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One reason for this

is that the UK is very pro-Internet and pro-eGovernment, and have been wanting to increase the amount of positive uses of the Internet by their citizens. The trouble is, as soon as new bandwidth is added it gets eaten up by file-sharing, which stumps their own intended uses. Some consumer groups are getting very angry with the poor performance on broadband connections, and the blame is gradually going on illegal traffic. This has much less to do with piracy problems as with abuse of network resources. Of course the music guys like the idea, but that was not the UK Gov's primary purpose; they mostly want to recover the bandwidth without reverting to US-style traffic caps. They know about legitimate P2P. Thats how the BBC iPlayer works. But legitimate P2P needs bandwidth currently being used for illegal activity.

Posted by: A.Sinic   Posted on: 02/25/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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