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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jemima Kiss

Tech Weekly: the BPI on filesharing and broadband Britain

There's a little bit of politics on this week's Tech Weekly - with your team Aleks Krotoski, Vic Keegan, Jemima Kiss and Charles Arthur.

We examine plans which will take action against music file sharers. The government have given the BPI (the body that represents music labels) and the ISP Association a deadline of April 2009 to agree a deal - or legislation will follow. Charles finds there's still some distance between them.

Vic steps up to the mic to discuss the government's lack of vision for the development of broadband. He spells out the implications of the country not upgrading to fibre optics and 100 megabits a second.

In the news we explain just how Pakistan managed to turn off worldwide access to YouTube, Facebook's fall in UK users, how eBay are angering buyers and sellers with their new feedback system, and how Microsoft have dumped HD-DVD for the X-Box.

New web business AdJug enters the lift to make an Elevator Pitch to Jemima, plus there's blogs, feedback and entertaining conversation (it says here).

It's all on our audio homepage here.

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• Tell us what you think at tech@theguardian.com
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