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Lord Carter BB Report...

http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/5631.aspx

and I think is the one people are going to get most upset with:

ACTION 13
Our response to the consultation on peer-to-peer file sharing sets out our
intention to legislate, requiring ISPs to notify alleged infringers of rights (subject to reasonable levels of proof from rights- holders) that their conduct is unlawful. We also intend to require ISPs to collect anonymised information on serious repeat infringers (derived from their notification activities), to be made available to rights-holders together with personal details on receipt of a court order. We intend to consult on this approach shortly, setting out our proposals in detail.
 
Additionally, from the report -

This should provide a good evidence base, to make it significantly easier for rights-holders to take targeted legal action against the most significant infringers. International experience of action of this sort suggests that more than two thirds of infringers change their behaviour when receiving notification. These obligations will form the central elements of a Code on unlawful file-sharing which Industry would be required to have in place, supported by backstop powers overseen by Ofcom. The Code would cover among other issues practical supporting measures, including appeals and standards of evidence. It would also cover cost-sharing.

We think the concept of a new Rights Agency and legislative action aimed specifically at addressing unlawful peer-to-peer file-sharing could be major steps forward. But this is new and difficult territory, and we want to get it right. So we will review the impact of any new measures, and will not hesitate to examine other options if these do not prove to be effective.

This will just herald a move towards newsgroups with encrypted connections, and other more "anonymous" forms of P2P.

If ISPs are going to spy on repeat infringers I suppose there will have to be a central register of "offenders" otherwise avoiding detection would be as simple as switching ISPs ? :hrmph:
 
tbh this news just shows the following:

1. they dont have any idea about the technology
2. move ISP
3. encrypt data connections
4. use news groups
5. and a host of other things

tho thinking about it this might give birth to the government trying to spy even more on our usage using DPI technology using this and other things as excuses.. lm totally astonished how many ppl dont mind the fact that they could be spied upon online for their own safety supposedly, which tbh is just another word for "disgraceful" in this case
 
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I have a feeling that the EU will shoot this down before it gets anywhere...

From what I understand of the EU's E-Commerce Regulations, ISPs can not be forced to monitor their networks, nor can they be held liable for what is transmitted over them.

No obligation to monitor

The E-commerce Directive states that Member States must not impose a general obligation on service providers to monitor the information which they transmit or store. It is normally accepted that if you do monitor the content on your servers then you are at greater risk as you will be treated as a publisher of that information.
 
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