Britain to crack down on file sharing
File sharers beware! The British government’s proposing a radical new way to punish those who freely swap music and films over the web: cutting off their internet access.
It’s a startling turnaround from just two months ago, when the government’s own Digital Britain report ruled out the measure as going too far. Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group feels the new proposals are draconian, because media companies themselves have at last started responding to the threat.
“Actually, piracy is reducing online and the reason for this is that the content industries have finally got the services in place so people can choose legal alternatives which are better than peer-to-peer file sharing,” he told RT.
- Raquel Leoncio
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