Reactions to UK’s filesharing clampdown
The fallout from the announcement that the UK government is working to come up with laws to tackle illegal filesharing is starting to show. Already media outlets are questioning the logic behind such actions.
The Guardian published an opinion piece showing that attention has been drawn by the government’s threat to introduce legislation if ISPs can’t come up with a way to deal with filesharing.
The move has been hailed as a victory for the music industry, but a worry for everyone else — including the millions of people who use filesharing services like Ares.
According to a survey, 43% of respondents had engaged in shady filesharing activities. We expect that figure translates to the wider world, meaning that half of the Internet may be targeted by this new filesharing legislation.
Bad news, right?
Another study has shown that about 70% of Internet users would stop filesharing if they knew it was being done illicitly. We’re unsure exactly what that means.
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Posted on 22 February 2008 by mike in Filesharing