File sharing suspects threatened: Stop or face expulsion from the internet.

Holy Canoli! It appears the internets sole purpose for existence is so that the Music industry can make you pay for their content. A tech firm in Germany is teaming up with a lawfirm in the UK to bully users suspected of file sharing to pay fines or face the consequences. I quote from the BBC:

…A letter is then sent to the alleged pirate, asking them to either pay a one-off fee of around £700 per infringement or face court action…

…Illegal file-sharing has been a huge problem for music and film industry and a recent industry study, by economics firm TERA Consultants, estimated that the UK’s creative industries experienced losses of £1.2bn in 2008 due to piracy…

…The Digital Economy Bill has just become law and it allows rights-holders to pursue file-sharers and, in extreme cases, temporarily cut their internet access…

What if bad file sharing people use the internet to do other important things, or even to access life-important services… their alleged file sharing activities supersede all else and the music industry has the right to cut their access? Even temporarily, thats pretty draconian powers granted to one industry. Who gets to choose what an “extreme case” is? Related Websites

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