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BT to cut off file-sharing customers
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| This follows a similar move by Virgin, which earlier this year joined forces
| with the BPI on an 'education campaign' aimed at those sharing copyrighted
| files.
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| ISPs have been under pressure from the government to work with the music
| industry in targeting illegal file sharers this year. Ministers have even
| threatened to introduce anti-filesharing legislation if a solution is not
| reached.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1434139294&rid=-50
They hopefully check very carefully if copyrights are involved at all. What
happens if users get chopped off the network for a mistaken judgment? How can
a CC-licensed song be told apart from RIAA-affiliated drumbeat junk?
Will ISPs later disconnect people for mistakenly watching copyrighted videos on
YouTube (as Bill Gates admitted doing)?
Recent:
Europe rejects plan to criminalize file-sharing
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| France's so-called Oliviennes strategy to combat copyright abuse includes
| a "three strikes and you are out" approach: offenders lose the right to an
| Internet account after being caught sharing copyright-protected music over
| the Internet for a third time.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1466645745&rid=-50
Sweden Rejects Sarkozy’s War on File Sharing
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| French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to disconnect European file sharers
| from the Internet. The idea is already in the process of being realized in
| France, and will according to Sarkozy be a step toward “a civilized Internet”
| where ISPs watch the information that their customers exchange.
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http://sigfridinenglish.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/sweden-rejects-sarkozys-war-on-file-sharing/
Big Brother: Sarkozy calls for it, his government does it.
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| "I want to see everything and know everything." - Nicolas Sarkozy, 2006, on
| video-surveillance
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| La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) has seen the draft "Trust Online”
| Charter (FR) that the Ministry of the Interior is asking ISPs to sign by June
| 10th. The text confirms La Quadrature’s worst fears. Under the pretext of
| protecting users, the French government is attempting to put in place an
| all-encompassing Internet monitoring and filtering system. It seeks to avoid
| the usual processes of law-making, in order to impose disproportionate
| obligations on the ISPs – obligations which violate fundamental rights and
| which are contrary to the ethos of the Internet environment.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/%EF%BB%BFbig-brother-sarkozy-calls-it-his-government-does-it
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