It now appears that six of the biggest ISPs in the UK have sign deals with the music industry to help combat piracy.  BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up for it.  I might be mistaken but didn't Carphone Warehouse say they wouldn't ever do anything like this?  How times and minds change (maybe with help from a little bit of money from the music industry).

The new deal with ISPs would see persistent file sharers having their connection capped at slower speeds.  Possible legality issues there maybe?  How can an ISP cap your connection when you're paying for a higher speed?  Anyway there doesn't seem to be any mention of the three strikes and you're disconnected measure they wanted to bring in.

In my opinion the music and film industries have both sleep walked in to the current state of affairs by not embracing the boom of the internet or mp3 players.  They decided to simply ignore them and continue with an out of date business model.

We know that CDs are still expensive (in the UK) and cheaper in Europe but it's not all the industries fault.  There are people out there that illegally download music for free just because they can and have no intention of buying any music, it's those that need to be stopped.

What are you thoughts?