Government web piracy regulation ‘could damage the music industry’

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Feargal Sharkey, chief executive UK Music, said the government needed to tread carefully on any regulation to control illegal file sharing.

He said a deal between internet service providers (ISP) and the music industry was only “weeks away” and government intervention could be detrimental to music lovers.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “For government to mandate about this well, it needs to be thought through. It’s a big concept, which has the potential to do a lot of damage not only to the music industry but also to technology companies themselves, which could have deep ramifications….