“Elio Leoni-Sceti, chief executive of EMI Music, whose artists include Katy Perry,is stepping up his push for providers to clamp down on consumers illegally downloading millions of pounds worth of digital music.”

“Internet service providers play a significant role because they own the pipe,” he said. “In England we know there is a lot of water and content filtering wastefully through the pipes across the country. The pipe owner has a responsibility to close the holes.” (Times Online)

In our opinion, the internet service providers need to change with the times. If the ISP’s are unwilling to deal with the problem, then a third party agency needs to be established that monitors for content that may infringe copyrights while stopping it from reaching subscribers’ computers. Here is one problem of concern – politicians and lobbyists can care less about intellectual copyrights and the arts, they are only concerned with issues that can fill their pockets. This is very detrimental to American culture and the arts. We don’t want to live in a country where copyrights are ignored. Somebody better act quickly….