The much-anticipated paper suggests a range of measures to cut unlawful activity, such as bandwidth reduction and protocol blocking, as it sets out "the importance of the digital economy to the nation's economic future".

Lord Carter outlines the Government's plans to modernise the UK's communications infrastructure, including universal access to broadband by 2012; an upgrade programme for digital radio, to be completed by the end of 2015; and - crucially for the music industry - a robust legal and regulatory ...