Assimilate UK! The British Music Industry Now Controls Your Internet

One by one the UK's ISPs are falling to a creeping censorship of the web led not by some secretive government organisation but by the UK's music industry in the shape of the British Phonographic Industry, the British record industry's trade association. There is no democratic check on what's happening and little recourse left open to the average person.

In a nice piece of investigation, Zack Whittacker at ZDNet has unpacked what's happening before our eyes.

Not unlike SOPA, the U.K.'s antipiracy legislation, the Digital Economy Act, has a "three-strikes" system leading to Internet disconnections, but it's been put on hold for implementation until 2014. So to get around this delay, the music industry is going to the courts.

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