Nowadays in UK, there are around 6 million people who are downloading files illegally. For example, illegal downloading materials are music and movies. These illegal downloading will cause the industry to lose millions of pounds in revenue every year.
Why does it happen? It is because the Internet Service Providers Association (ISP) bear no responsibility for illegal file sharing as the content is not hosted on their servers. It is also because the technology is becoming more effective and that allows internet providers to monitor what content is being downloaded. This is also likely to help to hurry the process of identifying pirates, and may lead to swifter disconnection, or prosecution. However, the ISP had
said the data protection laws would prevent providers from looking at the content of i
nformation sent over their network. But among the content, the ISP who failed to enforce the rules could take legal action and details of customers suspected in illegal downloading can be made available to the courts.
Therefore, UK has proposed a new law that will take action against the users who use their account to access pirated material by the internet services provider. As I found out that the UK government is working on the new law now to have this illegal down loader's internet connection to be cut off.
by Ng Pei Qi
