The chief executive of Vivendi (which owns Universal Music) thinks the “three-strikes” will protect content owners.

Jean-Bernard Levy tells the C&binet Forum that UK should follow France’s lead by cutting off internet access for persistent illegal downloaders

Jean-Bernard Levy, the chief executive of Vivendi, the French owner of the world’s largest record company, Universal Music, said the UK government needs to bring in a “three-strikes” policy that would ultimately cut off persistent illegal filesharers.

Levy, speaking at the UK government’s Creativity & Business International Network conference (C&binet) today on the issues facing the creative industries as they move to digital production and distribution, said that while it was too soon to gauge the results of the introduction of the “three-strikes” policy in France, it was a necessary step to protect content owners.

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