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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9714

31 July 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/internet
Internet providers and business leaders are joining United Kingdom in fighting illegal file-sharing

Brussels, 30/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 24 July, six of the main internet providers in the United Kingdom, as well as the British music and film industry announced that they intended to fight against free “peer-to-peer” downloading. Virgin, BT, Tiscali, BskB, Carphone Warehouse, Orange and Virgin Media have effectively joined forces with the British Photographic Industry (BPI) and the Music Publishers Association (MPA) to warn internet users who illegally download that their...

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