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UK ISPs ordered to hand over file sharers' details

By Johanna Gibson, David Pearce, Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon.

The IPKat noticed this article (also noted here and here), which reports that computer game developer Topware Interactive (previously reported by the IPKat in relation to a recent related patents court decision here) have now managed to get a further high court order to force UK ISPs to reveal the identities of thousands of people believed to be involved in internet file sharing.

This development, although apparently a surprise to ISPs, comes as no surprise to the IPKat, who saw no reason why such a move couldn't have been done before, an obvious target for such a move being music file sharing (see previous posts here, here, here, here and here).   What the IPKat didn't expect is that the computer games industry would steal a march on the music industry and go ahead with taking action against individual file sharers.  He wonders what will happen now, and how many alleged infringers will have the nerve to resist the settlement offer. 

Full post as published by IPKat on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).