JT watches with interest as UK gets tough with online pirates

Saturday 26th July 2008, 9:59AM BST.

JERSEY Telecom has said that it will ‘keep an eye’ on developments in the UK after six of the biggest internet providers agreed to launch a major crackdown on online piracy.

The deal, negotiated by the UK government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to users suspected of illegally sharing music.

BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up. Jersey Telecom said that although it had no plans to send similar letters to Islanders suspected of illegally sharing music, it will watch developments in the UK with interest.

Tim Ringsdore, Jersey Telecom’s sales and marketing director (pictured), said that the company’s website already warned customers about using the internet illegally, but the company planned to enforce the message more strongly in the future.

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Mark

July 31, 2008 at 4:29 pm

The reason the UK suppliers have been looking at this issue is not because the record industry are losing out but that they are losing the bandwidth to the downloaders, but not illegal downloaders, the people who sit there watching TV programs offered online by ITV, BBC etc. The explosion of these websites has slowed down the web and now suppliers need to free up bandwidth in readyness to start charging for bigger download speeds. How can Virgin start charging for a 100mb download speed if the user wont get no where near that speed due to all the other users blocking the bandwidth watching ‘eastenders’ on the BBC website.

Again its just about more money.

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