Ofcom May Regulate P2P, Filesharers Says Culture Minister

The UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham announced that the government is devising strategies to implement “technical measures” to clamp down on the most persistent illegal files sharers over the web. 

The UK government's measures to address the issue of illicit file sharing are yet to be disclosed in the Digital Britain report which is scheduled to be published later this month. 

Addressing the Music Week's Making Online Music Pay conference, Burnham asserted that any such measure was likely to include a requirement of necessitating ISPs to inform subscribers caught sharing digital files illicitly. 

He further said that sending simple notification mightn't be the solution that would appeal to many and the government would reserve the right to apply technical measures against persistent illegal file sharers. 

Quoting the significance of these technical measures in preventing file sharing, Burnham said, “Applying these measures will be a serious business, and not one we take lightly, but it is right that they are in place”. 

However, the Culture Secretary didn't disclose anything about the probable measures, but ruled out the previously floated notion of “three strikes” strategy, according to which users would lose their internet connection if they continued downloading copyrighted digital content illegitimately. 

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