UK ISPs will send letters about filesharing

Following on from Virgin teaming up with the BPI to bother its subscribers with letters warning them for using filesharing services to get illegal music downloads, six more ISPs have joined up with the UK government and will send 1,000 letter a week to filesharing subscribers.

The ISPs will also help to develop and promote legal music downloads. There’s no word on exactly what these letters will say and what implications receiving one might have.

It may be that this is the first step towards the three-strikes-and-your-out approach, which would see repeated filesharing violators cut off from the Internet after a third offense.

Virgin and BT have already begun threatening to cut users off from the Net, but ISPs aren’t known for being fond of this resource- and fund-consuming approach. Regardless, the UK’s ISPs are all set to begin tackling the issue of filesharing in accordance with the government’s vision.

If nothing else, this is clearly a step at educating the general public, but is it too little to late?

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Posted on 25 July 2008 by Iownmymusic in Filesharing