Nowadays, most of the people like to listening to music or watching some movies online, and there are also many internet users who like to download music or movies from the internet to their computer. However, they do not know that most of the time, they are actually downloading them illegally and may face legal action.
According to the survey, in UK itself, there are 6 million people who download files illegally every year. This will actually cost the music and film companies millions of pounds in lost revenues.
By reading another post on custompc.co.uk, it says that the new UK legislation will force ISPs to ban anyone caught downloading files illegally. The UK government is said to be planning to introduce a 'three strikes and you're out' scheme in order to effectively ban the offenders from the Internet.
'Three strikes and you're out' scheme means that users will receive a warning e-mail for the first offence if they are suspected of wrongly downloading films or music. Then, if they did the same at the second time, they will face a suspension. Lastly, their internet contract will be terminated if they are caught for the third time.
The ISPs are asked to enforce this law and if they fail to comply, they will be prosecuted, with the suspected customer's details made available to the courts. But there are some negative voices made on this demand. The ISPs do not think it is their responsibility to monitor what the people download but the customers themselves should take it. Besides, they also face difficulty to comply because they have the obligation that they cannot disclose their customers' personal data.
Piracy ? Or Privacy ?? Which is more important between these two? This is a debatable question and also a tough problem waiting to be solved.
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