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UK Music Boss: Deal with ISPs Has Potential for 'Lot of Damage'

By soulxtc

Cautions against hasty plans to combat illegal file-sharing, says poor approach could harm music industry as well as technology companies. Feargal Sharkey, chief executive of UK Music, which represents the interests of the UK’s music industry, warned the British government to tread carefully on any regulation to control illegal file-sharing. Sharkey, while a defender of rights holders, has led a rapprochement between the music industry and ISPs and is concerned by any government-imposed solution. “For government to mandate about this well, it needs to be thought through," he told the Daily Telegraph recently. "It’s a big concept, which has the potential to do a lot of damage not only to the music industry but also to technology companies themselves, which could have deep ramifications.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).