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Originally posted by darkangel
I'm pretty sure that any UK/euro isp cannot be forced to give info because of the human rights act they are not allowed to give out personal identifiable information although ntl may do this as they are a yank company
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If NTL did this they would be in breach of EU law, the fact they are an american owned comapny doesnt matter, they must trade within the laws of the countries they operate in.
As for the rest of the debate, all thats going to happen is that people will find more ways to share music etc. Look at the whole debacle over napster, what did it do? it created a bigger interest in filesharing because it hit headline news.
Also I am sure that it isnt technically illegal to donwload these files, its a case of having them available for download thats illegal.
There wasnt this much hassle over blank tapes, there was some but nothing like this, if the price was brought down sales would almost certainly go up. There is no way I would pay £16 and over for an album that I might not like.