Internet Piracy Crackdown Announced

24 July 2008 – 9:59am

Britain’s six main internet service providers (ISP); BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, Sky and Carphone Warehouse will shortly start “watching” what you download, mainly what you “file-share”.

To separate the two here’s what I mean, if you use Torrent applications such as µTorrent or other types of file-sharing applications such as LimeWire you will be monitored on what you download, this is their way of “cracking down” on music piracy.

Now, here’s a bunch of facts for those of you who do illegally download music.

RapidShare - A great web-based resource to download music files (although it’s still illegal) if the file is re-named so it appears as “homework” instead of say “Mica - Grace Kelly” your ISP will not think you’re downloading anything illegal, thus not look further into what you’ve downloaded (this can be done with anything, movies, music, etc).

ROMs - I’m sure many of you out there use Emulators and ROMs, here’s something really important you must know; they’re legal as long as you have the original game in your house within 24 hours, if you get caught downloading a ROM and they moan at you, all you have to say is that you own the original game.

Well there you have it it seems they’re starting to crack down on people doing illegal acts and technically you can go to prison for it (but I doubt they’d go that far).

Happy downloading!