UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 22, 2008 @05:28AM from the opening-envelopes dept.

superbrose notes that despite lots of legal difficulties regarding Internet privacy, the UK government is going ahead with plans to punish ISPs for allowing their customers to download illegal music and films. The claim is that there is "rampant piracy" in Britain with more than 6 million broadband users downloading files illegally every year. "The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films. Britain would be one of the first countries in the world to impose such sanctions. Service providers say what the government wants them to do would be like asking the Royal Mail to monitor the contents of every envelope posted."

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Re:6 MILLION! by jumpinp · 2008-02-22 15:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Any law that is violated by a sufficiently large percentage of it's population is an unjust law. We might as well do away with Drug laws, speed limits, and legalize gambling. It might be dangerous but it gunna be fun.