Chris

You are at the top end of a very long scale with that. To get any sort of jail term, you have to be found guilty in crown court of the criminal offence of making or dealing in items that infringe copyright ... basically what we used to call 'pirate videos', although these days that could be CDs or DVDs.

What the vast majority of p2p users are doing is the civil offence of copyright infringement. You cannot go to jail for that. If you are held liable for copyright infringement in the county court, the judge awards damages against you, in favour of the copyright owner. But in the case of p2p, that has never happened, except in a very small number of cases where the person accused of file-sharing has ignored their summons and has ended up with a default judgement against them.