The BPI should be brought to task over the pricing and the quality of the music on offer at the moment.

When you promote Reality rubbish and manufactured boy/girl bands, you get what you deserve!!!

Radiohead allowed their latest album to be downloaded for free, and that CD still sold,

The Internet is the future of the Entertainment Industry, and the BPI is still scratching it's head on how to manipulate that into profit.

neil, Harlow, UK

This is a very sensible attitude: it is wholly improper to require private organisations to act as law enforcement bodies: that is a job for the police.

James E. Petts, Burnham, England

It looks like Carphone Warehouse is set to corner the market now. As a Virgin customer, I have been pondering a move to Carphone Warehouse for months now because of Virgins ever growing costs and pure underhandedness.

I would personally like to congratulate Charles Dunstone and those from Carphone Warehouse that have been involved in this issue, for having the backbone to stand up to the government and for not allowing bullying tactics to intimedate them.

Andy Capp, Stevenage, Herts

Well done Talk-Talk!

Rob, Wallasey,

The fact that P2P transfers such as BitTorrent can be easily encrypted and hidden from any monitoring software means this is all somewhat mute talk. Those caught will be the 12 year olds downloading a couple of pop tracks, while those downloading gigabytes of albums and movies will slip through the net.

Dominic, London,

The BPI's proposals look to be unworkable.

I have Broadband at home with wireless access. This one link is used by myself for business use, but it is also shared by my two small daughters age 10 & 12 for MSN, music downloading and school homework.

I'm not sure my youngest daughter is fully appraised of the latest Copyright legislation. If she did understand it I'm not sure it's relevant to the under 11's ???

"Three strikes and your out" looks like our household would be disconnected. The impact of my youngest downloading three sets of content would seem a little severe.

Could I suggest the BPI work with the larger ISPs at funding some form of analytical engine that works out the largest SOURCES of illegally served content and agree do disconnect them after 1 strike.

My only assumption is my youngest Bethan hasn't worked out how to set herself up as a major content hoster in her bedroom.

If she has, the proposed engines output would be most welcome .....

Chris, Basingstoke, UK

The music industry fail to secure their market with odious DRM, they then take out private prosecutions against a few that they can trace and now they want the ISP's to do their work for them, the best laugh being at no cost to themselves.
If the music industry get their way then file sharers will just use more encryption and IP spoofing to hide your tracks.
I suppose the music industry will then want the ISP's to take the infringers to court on their behalf and not pay a penny themselves towards this action.
The scary thing is that with ISP's having to use packet sniffing software to monitor their customers the government will have access to everthing being sent and accessed on the NET.
This will be the first step towards the policing of the internet and the control of one of the last bastions of free speech.

n Morgan, Stockport, UK