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[FYI] Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:00:20 +0200
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Friday June 8, 03:45 PM
Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire
By John Borland, CNET News.com
As Napster's heyday fades into Internet mythology, its influence is
being etched in an increasingly tense game of cops and robbers that
has Internet service providers caught in the crossfire.
ISPs are stuck in an uncomfortable digital dragnet as record
companies, Hollywood studios and independent copyright bounty hunters
target their subscribers as pirates. Increasingly, service providers
are even being asked to cut their subscribers' connections, a last-
ditch proposition that these companies ordinarily avoid at all costs.
Although many ISPs are complying, several of the largest are putting
the brakes on the most severe of these requests, saying copyright law
simply doesn't cover the new file-swapping services. The resulting
tension outlines what will likely be an increasingly contentious
battlefield as file trading shifts from centralised services such as
Napster to new networks such as Gnutella and others that can be
approached only one individual at a time.
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