Filesharing crackdown divides UK music industry

Coalition of artists says moves to suspend offenders' broadband connections are like 'cracking a nut with a sledgehammer'A growing rift is developing in the music industry over proposals by business secretary Lord Mandelson to crack down on persistent filesharers by suspending their broadband connections.The row has pitted big names such as Billy Bragg and Annie Lennox against record labels and the Musicians' Union ahead of an approaching government deadline for comments in its illegal fileshari...

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