ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for a download?

UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for "illegal downloading" after a prominent music file-sharing site was shut down shortly after Britain signed the notorious ACTA bill.
It is the first time such a move has been made against Internet users in the UK. The British government introduced regulations in 2009 enabling Internet providers to track users who downloaded illegal content from the web and disable their connection if warning letters had no effect. But signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has brought the conflict to a whole new level.
In Europe, people are taking to the streets in protest at the contradictory Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, with some countries refusing to sign it.
After hackers from the activist group Anonymous attacked practically all US government websites in retaliation, the authorities are now considering adopting their own home-grown anti-counterfeiting laws like PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) / SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act).

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[rrradodddupaaa]

ACTA is dead in Europe, thanks to EU Parliment. This is unique case when they did good job I have to say... :)

[Fripon Vi-deo]

I could go to a bank with a gun.

I could point my gun at the employee and ask for money.

I could rob a fricking bank:

But at least I didn't download music! Phew! That would have been TERRIBLE

[Larner L]

In the US, downloading stuff can result in life in prison.

[sauroman1]

10 years! That's insane. UK is tyranny and civilians are disarmed.

[Milu0000000]

They didn't lost any money. It's bullshit. Most people wouldn't even buy this music this way or another.



[pete wells]

VPN

[Izzy Rae]

the real guy fawkes at 3:32

[MisatoK29]

This is still unjust. So what if you track an IP. Tracking an IP does not tell you who actually used the computer to download a file in question. SOCA should be thrown in jail for 10 years.

[louiseiiid]

Most of the music is ripped off samples from other musicians. Frankly they can keep their stupid noise - I fear that musicians will risk being assaulted in the streets by angry mobs if they allow their greedy companies to chase every cent in this way.

[HFQR]

AVOID UK because is bad weather, bad food, ugly fat womans, shit RHD cars, CCTV everywhere, everyone kiss the queen in the ass - mother fucker queen :)), BBC manipulation, incompetence police force.

UK is not what are u see on TV. Cheers fuckers :>

[Radu Mustatea]

So...is still existing ACTA???????????

[kragor1200]

So I could go and get away with robbing a bank.

But apparently If I download a music video i can go to jail?

bull fucking shit.