UK politicians leery of 3 strikes scheme

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- An important all-party working group of British parliamentarians has come out against the entertainment cartel-initiated Three Strikes plan, under which alleged file sharers could ultimately be thrown off the net without benefit of due process. The ‘graduated response’ scheme, as Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels call it, is being touted around the world as the answer to online ‘piracy’. The man fronting the scheme in Britain for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time-Warner, Fox, Disney, Columbia, Paramount and MGM, is lord Peter Mandelson.