Brits say No! to ISPs as corporate copyright cops
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- ISPs shouldn’t have to act as enforcers for the corporate entertainment industry, say most Britons.
Only 20.7% of of 472 respondents in an ISPreview survey thought providers, “should tackle repeated illegal file sharing by imposing restrictions upon P2P access”.
Moreover, just 14.8%, “were in favour of restricting broadband service speed as a punishment for repeat offenders,” and only 26.9%, “supported the idea of sending even more warning letters if the first one failed,” it says
And if indeed it’s the prerogative of ISPs to work for the movie studios and record labels, “Unsurprisingly 22.4% didn’t know how ISPs should solve the problem,” says the report, going on:
“The results come just over one month after Lord Carter`s Digital Britain report published its response to the consultation on peer-to-peer file sharing, which set out an intention to legislate by requiring UK ISPs to ‘notify alleged infringers of rights (subject to reasonable levels of proof from rights-holders) that their conduct is unlawful.”
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), “argues that ISPs cannot prevent illegal downloading because they ‘are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope’,” says the report.
March, 2009
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