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A SENIOR government official has warned that if ISPs do not do more to crack down on illegal file-sharing, then Labour will bring in more legislation.

Lord Triesman told the Beeb that the government cannot tolerate stealing and would crack down on illegal file-sharers unless ISPs did more to stop it.

Lord Triesman is the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills and he wants ISPs do snoop on the use of their customers to find out which ones are pirating and turn them them into the rossers.

He noted that the ISPs were in talks with the music industry and these were progressing better than people might have thought.

Lord Triesman believed that there were going to be successful voluntary schemes between the "creative industries" and ISPs and the government should not have to regulate.

Interestingly enough however Lord Triesman said he did not want the UK to go down the same route as the US. He did not want to see the industry "hounding 14-year-olds who shared music". What he wanted to see was more tracking down those who made multiple copies for profit.