May 15, 2009

UK ISP’s will not be internet cops

In France the “Three Strikes” rule has finally been passed, this has sent a signal around Europe that governments and internet service providers are going to have to get tough on internet users who keep downloading illegal material.

The favoured plan is to go down the three strikes and you are out path, this is where the ISP monitors their customers and if they are warned three times over illegal downloads they are automatically banned from the internet.

This means that the ISP’s will have to play cop on their own customers, which is something that some of them are unhappy about and believe that the copyright holders should get their own house in order by properly licensing their products in the first place.

Source [Ars Technica]