P2P litigation

[rsvmilly]

I believe that in America ISPs can be forced to give up the details of persons sharing movies and music. UK ISPs had always resisted this pressure.

Recently though, I have read that a couple are being sued in the UK on account of the amount of ilegally shared music on their kids' PC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4625961.stm

Has there been some shift?

>> Edited by rsvmilly on Monday 27th June 13:56

[TwistedBMW]

Indeed their has, not only are individuals being sued but the american courts recently ruled that file sharing companies/providers can be held responsible for people using them to illegally share music/video. Whilst file sharing as we know it will continue for a while its future is moving to charging and undergound for those who will not pay.