Having signed an understanding with the UK's six biggest ISPs and government, the BPI is currently working to address the unlawful filesharing that undermines artist investment and cost the business an estimated £159m in lost revenues in 2007.

BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor says, "The potential of innovative new music services is undermined by illegal services such as the Pirate Bay, which exploit music for their own profit without any respect for the rights of creators and performers.

"We are ...