UK ISPs will name clients
p2pnet.net News:- A 14-day deadline imposed by a UK Court to compel some members to supply names and addresses of clients to the Big Four record label cartel will be met, says Britain’s Internet Service Providers Association.
"I don’t know anyone who is looking to challenge it," an ISPA spokesman is quoted as saying in a silicon.com story.
"I don’t know any ISP who are up in arms about this."
The ISPs were ordered to hand over information about 28 people targetted by the Big Four record label cartel which has so far sued 5,700 Americans it says have been sharing music online without its permission.
It’s now moving into Europe with Britain as one of the countries to be invaded.
This ISPA’s position is in marked contrast to stances adopted by Canadian ISPs.
Our clients come first, they told Big Music when it demanded they reveal identities of 29 Canadians. "We said we were not prepared to compromise," Shaw Communications president Peter Bissonnette told p2pnet.
The music industry’s Canadian enforcement arm, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association), suffered a resounding defeat when a Canadian justice threw out its case against the ISPs.
Only one of the five ISPs named was ready to cooperate.
With more than 430,000 Internet customers, Quebec’s Videotron is owned by Quebecor Media, which is in turn a Archambault Group subsidiary, Archambault being the largest Quebec-based distributor and retailer of recorded music.
Last yearArchambault came out with a radio, tv and newspaper "awareness" project "similar to the RIAA campaign" against p2p file sharing.
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See:-
ISPA spokesman – Online music pirates will be collared within days, silicon.com, October 15, 2004
invaded – Big Music wins UK p2p case, p2pnet, October 14, 2004
threw out – Keep on swapping! Cdn file sharers told, p2pnet, March 31, 2004
