• British ISP Starts Sending Letters to Customers Accused of File-Sharing
  Virgin Media co-authors the letter with the BPI, which includes threats to terminate service.
• French Council of State Wants ISP Filtering Out of Three Strikes
  Does not like the expansion of non-judicial powers, rumors say.
• Mutualised Schemes
  Meanwhile: a French model for funding creativity, from Squaring the Net
• BT Internal Report Leak on Illegal Secret Phorm Test
  No-one was told; HTML was rewritten, unsuspecting customers data was mined.
• Botswana Considers New IP Laws
  "The copyright office will purchase a security device to authenticate all sound and audio visual recordings."
• Spanish P2P Company MP2P Technologies Sued by Recording Industry
  Defiantly, MP2P says it has been served with a lawsuit from "what remains of the four major record labels."
• Data Retention Challenged In Hungary
  New EU entrant joins Germany and Ireland in seeking a constitutional rejection of the EU directive.
• Yahoo India Faces Copyright Battle Without Safe Harbors
  Sued over a copyrighted video: Ars Technica thinks that Indian law will provide no liability protection.
• Japan Plans "Fair Use" Exemptions for Copyright
  Supported by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's IP taskforce.