Although it didn’t have many followers, the filtering over the Internet for discovering illegal file-swapping, is a way of stopping "digital piracy" by 70 percent, tells a study made by Wiggin UK media lawyers.
The network operators such as ISPs and phone companies were those discontented because some form of ISP filtering were declared to have something in common with the illegal trading of copyrighting.
Negotiations are taking place between the two parts (ISPs and content owners), but the date April 2009 is set to legislate the issue, even in the default of an agreement. Taking the example of France, the UK government looks like is trying to develop a "three strikes" approach to notifying and then blocking lawbreakers.
Digital Entertainment Survey was authorized by Wiggin to hear people’s opinion concerning the situation. They declared that if their ISP notified them in some way that it had detected the illegal practice, they would stop sharing files. In the same time a surprise came out: most of them were teenagers, willing to change their behavior, rather than mature Internet costumers.
Despite the fact the media did its job and revealed every time any P2P prosecutions and some people declared they would stop sharing files if feeling something’s wrong, still exists a 68 percent who said that the risk of being caught is quite small. And half of all users won’t discontinue their action for the same reason.
The debate is now over the idea that ISPs should (as a matter of policy) become enforcers of the copyrights for a specific industry segment, because it is unclear weather ISP filtering can work while avoiding false positives and maintaining user privacy.
