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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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