TalkTalk Doesn't Agree with BPI's Advice

TalkTalk Doesn't Agree with BPI's Advice

A BPI report that said that IT services providers could earn £203 million by 2013 just by offering internet packages with music download IT services. This report has made the IT company behind the popular TalkTalk respond with a comment and not in a good way. a TalkTalk spokesperson said that “TalkTalk thanks the BPI for its strategic business advice," being as ironic as possible in the statement.

"Some may question the value of such insight from an industry which is pressing the Government to criminalise its biggest customers. As it happens TalkTalk does offer a legal download service (emusic), as do other ISPs. Perhaps there is a goldmine for ISPs in legal downloads but that will not alter the fact that the copyright protection proposals being proposed threaten human rights. They will penalise innocent broadband customers. They are expensive, unwieldy and utterly futile.” BPI predicted that between 6,000 and 24,000 customers would pay for such services after gathering information on similar IT services.