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After review the blog “UK to get tough with illegal downloader”

This idea is really amuse me very much as the UK government’s new law target to approximately 6 millions netizen. But the most frightening thing is about such ideas that they are still trying to take all over the world by decision makers in government and industry who have absolutely power. No matter how the Internet actually works or damage to the democracy. Therefore, this idea is in consideration as impossible.

The another problem is the music and film companies need to have the conclusive proof that shows us the illegal downloads have cost them to lose million of pounds in revenues. There should be no more talk about changing or to impose laws on this “problem” until someone proves there is a fact.

Furthermore, this proposal was drafted in consultation green paper, defined as “a proposal without any commitment to action.” The government receives many of these each day and they are just like spam received by us generally.

This proposal is totally and completely unworkable in the real world. It is impossible for ISPs to open and check if every single download was legal or not. In addition, it is also difficult to determine which downloading is legal or illegal. This isn’t in the best interests of the government, the ISPs and the citizens. The ISPs cannot suffer the loss from banning customers and exposing themselves to billions in liability. Criminalizing six million citizens and inconveniencing the rest is not a vote winner.

Last but not least, there are a lot of people criticizing this proposal and pointing out the flaws. For instance, what if someone is illegally downloading during working time through company’s network connection? What if the person going to a friend’s house and using their computer? Or using wi-fi in Starbucks with a laptop?

It is hard to impose a law on internet in order to ban the illegal downloading activities. However, if the proposal has passed and come into force, and you are the illegal downloader in UK, it is strongly advise you to either stop it or find a plan B.

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