Channel 4, BSkyB and Virgin Media's chief executives Andy Duncan, Jeremy Darroch and Neil Berkett are urging the Carter to draft legislation that will give internet service providers the power to prosecute piracy offenders, if other action fails.
The group, which also includes Universal Music and Sony Pictures' chief executive and chairmen Lucian Grainge and Michael Lyton, and the Premier League's chief executive Richard Scudamore, is looking to Lord Carter to include in his report - due out on 16 June - a crackdown on illegal file sharing, which costs the film, television and music industries an estimated £500m a year in lost revenue.
A spokesman for Virgin Media said Berkett was in constant talks with Lord Carter in the run up to Digital Britain and piracy was a big part of the discussions.
The calls to tackle the issue of online piracy follow the convictions of the four founders of download video site Pirate Bay. Last month, the co-founders Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundström, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter S Kolmisoppi, were sentenced to jail terms and fined $3.6m by a Swedish court for distributing illegal content online.
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