Jul 24 2008
New law to stop online music piracy
July 24
In order to tackle the illegal file sharing on internet to download music a new annual charge of up to £30 has been proposed yesterday. This new law will be beneficial to overcome the rising online music piracy and will also help the music industry to curb down such illegal operations happening online.
It was reported that in the process of stopping this online piracy letters will be send to those users, suspected of file-sharing by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. It was also said, that the internet companies have agreed to make sure their customers do know that its illegal to share copyright music. The government has taken this decisive step due to the continuous rise in such illegal downloading via internet.
If we look at the figures we can spot that over six million people downloads file illegally in the UK every year. This itself tells how rapidly the illegal downloading is going on without any check. It is expected that this new policy will somehow curb this growing piracy and will also educate people about the illegal business going on.
