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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm just happy that at least one country actually seems to be trying to take the huge problem of illegal downloading seriously.
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If they were "taking it seriously," they'd be prosecuting those they believe are criminals. They are not. They are requiring businesses to cut off services to people accused of illegal activity, with no proof in court, with no government management of the penalties.
They are handing off their responsibility to stop crime, to the managers of the locations in which crime takes place. It's like they told individual store-owners that they were supposed to take away the wallets and ID cards of suspected shoplifters.
Shoplifting is indeed a problem. However, the solution isn't to strip-search every customer before they leave the building. And illegal filesharing is a problem. (I note that you & I probably have different ideas about what filesharing is illegal.) But the solution is not to give government--or worse, corporate--access to everyone's computers so they can search for evidence of crimes.
And in the US, the government does not mete out punishments to "suspected" criminals. We are required to convict.