The British clampdown on filesharing is a real threat to Internet freedom. The British record industry is intent on coming up with ways of stamping out all filesharing activity. According to Jollyon Benn of the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), people use filesharing programs like Limewire mistakenly believing they are not breaking the law.
Benn thinks that education is the key to solving Britain’s filesharing problem. That’s BS. People know what they doing. Education will not solve a damn thing. Yes, filesharing and BitTorrent is now easier than ever to use, but people aren’t so stupid that they aren’t made fully aware that downloading copyrighted material is wrong.
Apparently, the BPI is developing bots that can detect illegal filesharing. The BPI wants to take out larger filesharing networks. What happened to educating people? Could the British music industry be even more clueless than the industry in the US?
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