The UK government has once again reiterated its threat to impose legislation upon ISPs, unless of course they agree to a voluntary solution for tackling illegal file-sharing by April next year.

Understandably the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has retaliated, warning that such regulation could be "cumbersome" and that ISPs were "mere conduits of information, [BEARING] no legal liability for content on their servers."


Readers will no doubt be quick to recall that Virgin Media recently began trials of a new system with the BPI (news), which involves customers found to have downloaded illegal music being sent "educational" letters.

This is similar to the BPI’s previously proposed “three-strikes” method, which is covered in our recent article - 'To Ban or Not to Ban (Illegal File Sharers)'. More @ ZDNet.