By Tim Ferguson
Published: Friday 25 January 2008
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Name
Chris Goodman
Location
Fareham England
Occupation
O&M advisor
Comment
ISPs are funded by their users for the specific purpose of internet connection and it is not the remit of ISPs to incur expenditure to prevent their users exchanging copyrighted material. Any procedures put in place to filter out copyright infringements must be fully funded by the entertainments industry, they being both the requiring body and the eventual beneficiaries.
ISPs must stick to their reason for existing - to provide internet communications facilities.
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