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Internet users face new checks

By Tim Bradshaw and Ben Fenton

Published: January 29 2009 14:41 | Last updated: January 29 2009 14:41

Internet service providers will be forced to gather information on illegal filesharers using their networks and report serious offenders, under proposals in the government’s Digital Britain report.

Thursday’s interim report by Lord Carter, the communications minister, also set out plans to make available up to 2 megabit-per-second broadband, sufficient to watch video, to the whole country by 2012.

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