UK going wild ..

[tomozj]

I agree that this step is a little extreme to combat piracy, and when I first read an online article on this I didn't think it was as serious as is made out in this topic, and it isn't. I doubt they would even bother hacking into a computer just to catch another filesharer, but instead they would use it to check on terror suspects and larger scale criminals. This is also backed up by:

A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he "believes" that it is "proportionate" and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years.

It would be extremely costly and time consuming to hack into millions of computers just to track those who download a few MP3s.

[HoogerBooger]

Exactly, there's way too much bureaucracy involved to get this project running. Worst case scenario they will a martyr out of some random kid having 100 gigs of pirated media on his HDD and spread it all over the media to deliver a message, but unfortunately a week later no-one remembers that headline anymore.

[Dust]

They're doing almost the same thing in sweden soon.

Soon you'll get a bill mailed to your mailbox with an amount of cash which you have to pay, unless you want to be taken to court etc etc. (the billing part will only occure if a big brand like; warnerbros w/e, have located your IP address as a seeder via a bitTorrent client w/e on one of their products)

There's no such thing as a free lunch!

Tomorrow they'll implement this, and it will be called IPRED.

[Danny]

These poor companies. You should feel sorry for them: how are they going to afford that 4th holiday this month if people keep downloading?

[g3344]

Tomorrow they'll implement this, and it will be called IPRED.

IPRED SUXTEEN DALLOS FOR THIS UND YOI STULL TULL MEY TO PUY OP!

[FarePak]

Apparently 80-90% of the people who download in Sweden, why not just put whole of Sweden behind bars?

[Dust]

Apparently 80-90% of the people who download in Sweden, why not just put whole of Sweden behind bars?

Yeah, I know, and that's the sad part, small kids, like 6-8 years old will be the first victims, and their families have to pay 50,000 SEK - 300,000 SEK just for the court costs, then the companies will sue them, and yeah.. you get the picture..

1$ ~ 6-9SEK
1£ ~ 9-13 SEK
1€ ~ 10-11 SEK