Illegal File Download Menace
According to an authentic survey carried out recently, approximately seven million people in the UK are using the broadband for illegal downloads. Because of this, the economy is loosing about ten billions of pounds, says the government advisors in their turn.
A research disclosed that about 1.3million people were consuming one file-sharing network on a particular weekday, and over a year they shall consume about 120 billion pound of worth material at free of cost.
The SABIP (Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property) says that it is hard to change the attitudes of the people as the government says that to handle this situation, stress should be laid internationally. The minister for Intellectual Property, Mr. David Lammy said that the whole UK economy should be reporting to the context about the impact of illegal downloads on copyright industries.
He also added that the issue was not confined to the national boundaries. According to him, the other [EU] member states and their copyright industries collectively had to take this report as a development of policy.
A nine prong UK bodies alliance representing the creative industries made an organization with the trade unions and appealed to the government to force the ISPs to cut off stubbornly the illegal file sharers. They opined that half of the net traffic in the UK was illegal.
The internet service providers refused this on the grounds that it was not their job. The latest report from the SABIP says that the new generation of broadband has accessibility to deliver 200MP3 files in five minutes with the advent of fast services of up to 50 Mbps, as a DVD can downloaded in 3 minutes.
About seven million people are believed to excercise accessibility over these illegal files, according to the survey. Not all were found students. Many of them were unaware of the consequences of this issue. The fact is that behind the whole thing is nothing else than the notion that everything was free on the internet. This obviously is an added confusion.
The SABIP Board member Mr. Dame Lynne Brindley commented that the report strives to provide some baseline evidence, from which they were prioritised to workout a clear research strategy that will evolve into a crucial supporting policy in this rapid moving area.
