All, Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "After the recent draft legislation in the UK, which would create a 'three strikes' policy to cut off anyone accused of online piracy, the http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/12/anti_filesharing_paper_leak/ ISPs are asking for liability protection when users are wrongly identified. They're worried that when users are wrongly blamed for piracy, as has happened in several widely-reported investigations already, they will turn around and sue their ISP. The ISPs, of course, think that the record companies or whoever else wrongly identified the file sharers should be the ones to pay out any such judgments. The British Phonographic Industry, however, disagrees and wants the ISPs to simply use their Terms of Service to disconnect people. Apparently, that means they think that the ToS should be able to remove any legal recourse people might otherwise have against being misidentified. My notes: I believe the RIAA is facing a significant challenge here yet again. ToS's will not be held legally ethical and are not practical in addressing this sort of situation in many countries and doubtful even in the UK. It seems clear that certain elements within ICANN's IPC are creating disruption and uncertantity which has huge long term negitive effects on world wide IT sector economics. My guess is that the RIAA is changing it's focus to the UK and other EU nations as it has already lost significant creditability in the US due to significant and high profile legal defeats which are still mounting.. Hence whey we have called for the revocation of the RIAA's membership in the IPC. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827