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ISPs and government clamp down on illegal downloading

Internet service providers have been working hard and have now worked out a deal with the government, as well as the music industry so that they can clamp down on illegal downloading.

The new deal that will be announced some time today will include a deal with UK ISPs, which means that they will send out hundreds of thousands of letters to their customers who are responsible for illegal downloading.

The BPI, the body that represents record labels, and the government have struck a memorandum of understanding, this will see the introduction of a legislation to a clampdown on people who download illegally.

The new understanding will see a deal struck with the six biggest IPSs in the UK, these include BT, Virgin, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and BSkyB. The deal will include all the parties to work together to come up with ways to stop repeat offenders.

It is about time that ISPs took a tough stance on this, they have failed to take action for so long. It is now time for a reform, so illegally downloader’s beware.

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ISP Tiscali is considering legal action against BT

Its being reported that BT sent emails to Tiscali’s customers about the company’s future existence as an ISP, these letters apparently went to Tiscali’s associates as well (Nildram and Pipex).

ITProPortal is reporting the news and said that letter was titled, “Tiscali Chief Plots Sell-Off”, this could have been extremely damaging to Tiscali and if true could leave BT in hot water.

In the letter its being reported that it said the customers should look for “an alternative broadband service”, the letter claimed the future of the Tiscali broadband service was unknown.

Its Interesting that the letter talks about an alternative broadband service, and goes on to talk about switching to BT’s broadband services.

If this letter really came from BT, what do you think of BT trying to take Tiscali’s customers in this way?

Its hard to believe the letter to be true when you think the letter also included the privacy details, would BT really use peoples personal details to get new business without your permission?

Read more on ITProPortal.

Tiscali stops all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 (COD4) Online

Its hard to know where to start with this issue, simply put Tiscali are stopping all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 Online at certain times (mostly the whole evening up to 12 midnight).

I first looked into this when I could not connect to games on my Playstation 3 and got “error 33” with Call of Duty 4, and also having many other connection problems in the game.

After a little research I found out I was not the only one with these problems and even more amazingly nearly everyone was a Tiscali or Pipex (owned by Tiscali) customer.

I have read all 41 pages on a Tiscali forum, which shows many of the ISP’s users moving away to another broadband provider and getting their Mac codes.

It looks like the issue is COD4 uses P2P to find games and Tiscali are blocking this at certain times Read more