In related news, as the content industries await the publication of the final draft of the government's 'Digital Britain' report, and to see how Burnham's vague commitments last week will be expressed in it, the boss of one of the UK's biggest internet service providers TalkTalk (the biggest if and when its takeover of Tiscali UK is completed) has again spoken out against the music industry's suggestion that it is the net firms who should be leading anti-piracy initiatives, possibly by inflicting 'technical limitations' or maybe even disconnection onto those web-users who infringe copyrights.
TalkTalk boss Charles Dunstone, always the most vocal in his criticism of the music industry's attempts to make the ISPs take on the role of piracy police, has told reporters that even if the net firms did agree to take a hardline approach to file-sharing (or if they were forced to do so by government) it wouldn't achieve anything, because file-sharers will employ (and indeed some already are employing) new technology that hides their infringing activity.
Dunstone: "If you try speed humps or disconnections for peer-to-peer, people will simply either disguise their traffic or share the content another way. It is a game of Tom and Jerry and you will never catch the mouse. The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid. education and allowing people to get content easily and cheaply. This idea that it is all peer to peer and somehow the ISPs can just stop it is very naïve".