Efforts to broker an agreement between ISPs and the recording industry on how to apply a controversial change to copyright law are teetering on the brink after both parties expressed severe misgivings over a possible compromise.Internet users who download pirated movies over peer-to-peer networks or upload copyrighted material to websites would be among those who risked having their internet access cut off under a “four strikes and you’re out” proposal put forward by the Telecommunications Carriers Forum (TCF).
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NZ deal to thwart piracy falters
Efforts to broker an agreement between ISPs and the recording industry on how to apply a controversial change to copyright law are teetering on the brink after both parties expressed severe misgivings over a possible compromise.