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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
And another thing. Here in Sweden you have housing associations which provide internet access the way they provide water, electricity, central heating and television. I think you might find there is a big outcry from them if courts start to make them pay for illicit downloads.
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Well, here in Sweden we are not subject to British law, so no worries about that. HarryT is an intelligent and erudite person and I often concur with his postings. However, in this case, that ownership of a router, I assume them to be as ubiquitous in the UK as they are here in Sweden, should automatically involve responsibility for the material transmitted over cables or ether seems to me far-fetched.
The only way to obtain that would be to re-establish the telephone monopoly of times past. One model router, with its specific IP address, registered to Mrs. So-and-so. That is not a society in which I would feel comfortable.