Trying to stop people sharing copyrighted material over the internet is a game of cat and mouse in which the pirates will always win and calls for internet service providers to halt illegal file sharing are "naive", according to the boss of Carphone Warehouse.
Instead, Charles Dunstone said, the solution is education about the benefits of respecting copyright coupled with services that allow consumers "to get content easily and cheaply".
Speaking after the company announced a jump in annual profits and plans to split its TalkTalk broadband business from its retail stores by July of next year, Dunstone said people had become "obsessed" by peer-to-peer file sharing but "th