Uk file sharing prosecutions

Although the law allows for a "three strikes" provision in which internet service providers ISPs would be required to write to the people who are using an IP address at a time that it is found to be infringing, it has not yet been implemented. Beyond that, copyright owners might be able to take people to court or demand that their internet connection is throttled or constrained.

But Birss pointed to a lack of case law to support the idea that someone in charge of an IP address could be judged guilty of infringement carried out through that address. I am not aware of a case which decides that question either. The BPI, which represents record labels in the UK, has successfully prosecuted a number of people in the UK after showing that they were using P2P software and downloaded files from them which it could present as evidence.

However no such evidence was presented in the cases being considered by Birss, and it is not clear that the Digital Economy Act requires that level of evidence either for ISPs, which are asked to write letters to alleged infringers. Under the act, the UK's largest internet service providers will send warning letters to internet users whose IP addresses are linked to illegal downloading, and anyone who receives three letters in 12 months could be sued by the copyright owner.

ACS:Law, the controversial law firm at the centre of a huge row over illegal downloading and data protection, on Tuesday had its attempt to discontinue lawsuits against 27 people it suspected of illegal downloading quashed by the court. With vast proportions of the UK public involved in file-sharing to some degree, who will be next?

Jim Killock : May 13, at PM. Excellent piece; the question I have first off though is what levers we have with the police and investigators, since they are wasting our money investigating private, non-criminal copyright complaints?

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This week, the first person in Scotland to be convicted of illegally sharing music files online was sentenced to three years probation. She was convicted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act [1]. The scale of the problem of illegal downloading is contested. According to research by Harris Interactive, about 1. Their original legal action, asking for a High Court Review of the Act claiming it broke European laws, failed in Of particular concern to the companies, are the clauses which oblige ISPs to co-operate with record labels and film studios that want to identify those who deal in pirated music and films online.

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