Six major British ISPs have agreed to cooperate with the music industry in the fight against online piracy, reports BBC News. After negotiations with the authorities of the British group the Recording Industry (BPI) on behalf of hundreds of large and small local labels, as well as the American Association of film production companies have signed an agreement with BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse.
All of these providers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and agree to send out warning letters to customers, BPI and MPAA are suspected of illegal file-sharing. This will affect both those who download music and movies, as well as those who puts The copyright downloads. For a particularly vicious fayloobmenschikov will seek technical impact - service providers will reduce their speed broadband connection.
According to Jeff Taylor, executive director of BPI, now all the major UK service providers access to the Internet to realize that they must take responsibility for the actions of its users. To make the service providers is to recognize, record labels took several years.
The transaction is expected to help providers with labels significantly reduce illegal file-sharing companies and spur the development of legal music services. The media also were reports that internet users with an annual fee will be assessed to recover the owners damages caused fayloobmenschikami. However, Jeff Taylor calls these incorrect statements and claims that such a question even the BPI has not discussed with the British Government.
Delivery of letters of warning has already begun: in the past few weeks Virgin Media and BT have sent thousands of messages to users. ' Three-stage model of the ' solution to the problem of illegal file-sharing has been borrowed from France, Great Britain. The system provides dispatch alerts by e-mail first, and then by registered letter. If convicted of downloading The copyright material will ignore demands to stop illegal activity, it risks losing access to the Internet for one year.
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