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BPI lifts ban on legal Pirate Bay site
By Kate Solomon published
The BPI has told UK ISPs to remove The Promo Bay from their block lists, with BT and Virgin Media confirming that the domain is now accessible.

UK search certification scheme mooted
By Marc Chacksfield published
A new voluntary scheme is being proposed in the UK which would punish copyright infringing sites and boost links to sites that have licenses to sell content.

Online music and videos to get explicit 'sticker' in UK
By Patrick Goss published
Online music and video that includes strong language, sex or violence offered to the UK audience will be given an 'explicit' logo on key sites from today.

Website censorship: be careful what you wish for
By Carrie Marshall published
Gary Marshall Beware of good people with really bad ideas

BPI asks BT to block Pirate Bay or go back to court
By Kate Solomon published
BT has been asked to block access to The Pirate Bay after a court recently ruled that the ISP must cut off its users' access to filesharing site Newzbin2.

BPI gives BT 100,000 IP address of music pirates
By Adam Hartley published
But is annoyed that the broadband provider not taking action

Spotify forced to remove songs from music library
By Adam Hartley published
Though it's only a one-off cull, services bosses assure

UK Music: Five-year plan to combat music piracy
By Adam Hartley published
The music industry is in crisis. It has been for some time. The question on all label exec's minds is how to combat the increasing problem of illegal filesharing via P2P networks.
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