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The head of the Carphone Warehouse says it isn’t the job of ISPs to police the net. Chief Executive Charles Dunstone, said that he wouldn’t disconnect users who had illegally downloaded copyrighted music if they didn’t contravene their ISP fair use policy.

“Talk Talk rejects music industry threats and refuses to become internet police” said Dunstone, whose company also controls the UK arm of AOL.

Dunstone made the comments in response to recent Government efforts to create a dialogue between the British Phonographic Industry, represented by the BPI and ISPs. A ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy is supported by the BPI.

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Malware specialist McAfee has launched a handy new ‘10-step Internet Safety Plan eBook’ to educate computer users about the latest threats and potential dangers lurking in the darkest depths of the internet.

For more advanced users, the guide may well seem to state the obvious, though for the majority of computer users out there it’s full of genuinely useful and easy-to-understand “safety guidelines for kids, ‘tweens’, teens, and novices”.

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Google has reiterated its opposition for any potential Yahoo/ Microsoft merger - with chief executive Eric Schmidt insisting that any such deal would be ‘bad for the internet’.

Microsoft’s huge bid for control of Yahoo would immediately create an online force that could potentially compete with industry giant Google.

Therefore the opposition of Schmidt is anything but unexpected, especially in light of both companies’ grumblings about Google’s merger with DoubleClick.

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