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Bono has accused ISPs of profiting from illegal filesharing and has suggested that ISPs curb copyright infringement in the same way they tackle child pornography.

“The government’s proposed ‘Three-Strike’ Copyright Protection Law is ill-conceived, constitutionally outrageous, morally unfair and epically foolish.” – Stephen Fry.
 
Stephen Fry has agreed to judge a competition to create a protest song, poem or other form of artistic expression against the proposed ‘Three Strikes’ law.
The law is designed to protect the music and film industry against copyright [...]

TalkTalk believes the Government’s Digital Economy Bill has serious shortcomings in relation to the provisions on illegal file-sharing. It is their view that the Bill would be deeply damaging to the rights of consumers, and could lead to damage to the internet more widely, whilst failing to solve the underlying problem with file-sharing.  
TalkTalk’s main concern [...]