Blog: Secure delivery
In an “unprecedented joint statement”, the alliance predicted a “lawless free-for-all” unless the government ensured the “safe and secure delivery of legal content”.
It reports that in 2007 an estimated 98 million illegal downloads of films and more than a billion illegal downloads of music tracks took place in the UK. It says more than six million people in the country regularly file-share copyright content without permission.
The previous tactic of pursuing individual file-sharers in the courts appear to have been abandoned.
“Suggestions for rights-owners to take many thousands of legal actions seeking damages against individual file-sharers in court are neither practicable nor proportionate and would create a drain on public resources,” the joint statement reads.
The statement stops short of calling on the government to introduce legislation with detailed technical measures to prevent illegal file-sharing.
“Instead, [the government] should provide enabling legislation, for the specific measures to be identified and implemented in an Industry Code of Practice,” it recommends.
