Cnet reports that relationship between Internet service providers and the RIAA is breaking down, as ISPs are beginning to balk at what they see as increasingly onerous demands to step up pressure against online copyright infringement:
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Last month saw a two-pronged expansion of that strategy, resulting in separate legal skirmishes between the record labels’ trade association, Verizon Communications and a handful of large backbone service providers. Internet service providers now say they’re increasingly concerned that their hard-won position of neutrality in the copyright wars is being undermined.
“It’s absolutely worrisome,” said Robin O’Reilly, congressional affairs adviser for Cable & Wireless, a large Internet backbone company. “This is not a role we want to get into.”
Read the article here.
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