Illegal peer-to-peer sharing of movies, music and software is currently estimated to comprise more than half the world’s Internet traffic – and copyright holders are up in arms, saying that CD, movie and software sales are taking a devastating hit from the quick, convenient and anonymous piracy options the broadband age has opened up. Now, the UK is considering legislation that would see suspected illegal file sharers cut off altogether by their ISPs – despite the fact that the European Parliament recently rejected a similar plan from France, on the grounds that it contravened the modern citizen’s fundamental right to access the Internet.
Information is free in the Internet Age
Music sharing has long been an issue for record companies – back in the 1980s and 90s, though, volumes were small enough to be negligible; yes, you could dub a cassette or burn a CD, but most of this was fairly small-scale, at least in developed countries.
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