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Consultation on Legislative Options to Address Illicit Peer to Peer File-sharing (HTML format)

• Departments: 

• Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Document type: 

Consultation paper

Date of publication: 

24 July 2008

Deadline date: 

30 October 2008

Summary: 

This consultation seeks views on a proposal for a co-regulatory approach to facilitate and ensure cooperation between internet service providers and rights-holders to address the problem of illicit use of peer to peer file-sharing technology to exchange unlawful copies of copyrighted material.

• Subjects: 

• Consumers, business and industry; 
• Crime and law enforcement; 
• Information and communication; 
• Justice system

• Regions: 

• National

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