The UK is merrily going down the same yellow brick road as many other jurisdictions. This report is from Technollama: The air of inevitability surrounding three strikes legislation in the UK came to its fruition yesterday with the announcement by Lord Mandelson that the government will seek to pass legislation that will force intermediaries to [...]

Virtual Law@LSE writes that BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up to the Government’s new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on File Sharing. [BBC, Guardian, Telegraph] The MOU means that the companies have to work to create a “significant reduction” in illegal filesharing. This may sound easy enough but spying on [...]