Big news on the internet front - ISPs are going to start taking action against customers they believe are sharing music illegally. BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, Sky and Carphone Warehouse will all be sending out letters to people warning them of this development. After this, the offenders might see their bandwidth being throttled, or even a block put on the downloading of media files.
Just last week the FCC in the US ruled that it was illegal for Comcast to throttle the bandwidth of people using BitTorrent. Where's our FCC, huh?
This is a huge development, and something that has been rumbling along for ages. It was only a few months ago that Charles Dunstone, of Carphone Warehouse, issued a very public statement saying it wasn't the ISPs job to monitor illegal downloading.
Is this right? Should the responsibility of illegal downloading be left to your internet provider, or are they providing a service to you, leaving it up to you to decide how you use it? Should the music industry come up with a business model that suits both them and the customer? Do these rhetorical questions give you an idea of where I stand on the issue?
Quite.
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Out of curiosity, did they mention how they plan on differentiating legal file sharing from illegal?
No, and it's my understanding that this was one of the issues with Comcast throttling their traffic.
i am currently being throttled as we speak carphone warehouse have denied they are throttling but i am most deffinately seeing a mass reduce and even connection problems when utorrent is on so i cant even connect to the net its a disgrace that for a service i am paying quite highly for im not recieving but the main problem i have with this is im a dj and upload my own music to people around the world via utorrent because its free im not very tech minded and utorrent is ideal so ftp has and does confuse me now due to me not being able to upload my music they have in the last 3 weeks lost me a mass amount of fans who use to listen to my music and also re mix parts of it to change it to what they think is better and then send it back again remixed i guess if by uploading my own produced music makes me a pirate then so be it i guess il have to look else where for net service or even go back to the good old fashioned post office and send cd's via mail atleast they wont stop every detail