BPI accuses BT of failing to act on file sharing information

Officials from the British Phonographic Industry have recently accused broadband and communications giant BT of failing to act on information regarding BT broadband users that are illegally file sharing.

The topic of illegal file sharing amongst broadband users has been the subject of heated controversy of late, with industry groups in the world of entertainment growing increasingly frustrated over the problem relating to illegal file sharing, which is said to be costing the entertainment industry huge sums of money.

One such industry group has now claimed that the broadband and communications giant BT failed to act on information that was provided in relation to BT broadband users that were illegally file sharing, and has described this failure to act on the part of BT as ’shameful.’

Officials from the British Phonographic Industry claims to have delivered the IP addresses of around one hundred thousand BT broadband users that are though to be engaging in illegal file sharing, but said that despite being handed the information on a plate the broadband providers has failed to do anything with this information.

An official from the BPI said: “It’s shameful for a company like BT to know that a high percentage of the traffic it carries is illegal material but do nothing. If you operate a commercial service and know it is being used to break the law, taking steps to ensure it is used legally is a cost of doing business.”

Just days ago one senior official from BT said that to police the networks for copyright infringement would cost the company around one million pounds a day. However, Internet Service Providers have been given a twelve month target to reduce copyright infringement by eighty percent in the recent Digital Britain Report.

Source – Music Week