Other people can be assumed guilty and punised… all for my actions…

Mandy’s proposals will increase VPN usage, and for those that don’t wish to pay… may well just encourage them to exploit other people’s connections.

Professional infringers (for profit infringers) will make sure they stay out of sight… and innocent people will be found guilty of infringements they might not have even commited.

No, what we’ll all end up doing is sulking/moaning about it, and not actually doing anything to change it.
Nothing is sweeter than the status quo – even if the status quo means the law doesn’t make any sense.

Fortunately, the law is on our side.
I’m not implying that disconnecting people is a breach of human rights or anything, after all, human rights are simply a social construct.
No, what i mean by the law being on our side, is that the legal system is like a patchwork quilt.
When there’s a hole, you make a bit of legislation to patch it up again.

What Mandelson wants to do is sow in a nice mural into our quilt.
Unfortunately for him, the quilt works fine without the mural.
Some people don’t like his stitching, some people love it – but at the end of the day it will confer no benefit to anyone, and as such will never make it onto our quilt.

In other words, law in the UK is very pragmatic, very utilitarian.
These laws don’t help consumers nor do they really help distributers of copyright works, and as such will never get into law.

End of.

Its been the same for all peoples all thoughout ALL off history ( 3500bce etal),your either going to have to get used to it or make a revolution. (either of which is unlikely, asper history)