Digital Britain is still a work in progress.

Neither the music industry nor the ISP community are jumping for joy after scanning Stephen Carter's 80-page report on the UK's digital future, released last week.

The Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting's Digital Britain pronounced on everything from digital radio to filesharers, with the latter group left in no uncertain terms that their behaviour is no longer tolerated by the Government. It plans to bring in legislation to force ISPs to notify music downloaders that their conduct is unlawful.

It is also proposed that ISPs will have to collect information on the most serious repeat offenders and this data will be made available to rights holders. However, the BPI's director of public affairs Richard Mollet says the latest evidence shows that people will only stop filesharing if there is some other measure. "Letters are not enough, a further sanction is needed," he says.

Typically, for an interim report - the final report is expected later this year - there were obfuscations and several contradictions, one

notably in relation to pursuing legal action. Many proposals also called for more consultation or "other suggestions", making it read very much like a work in progress.

Significantly, there was ...