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The UK has adopted what many consider to be Europe's toughest digital copyright law, seeking to protect a media industry that exports many of its works to overseas audiences.
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"The law on the provision of P2P services was ambiguous before and it remains ambiguous," Struan Robertson said. "But those using the services in this country are facing a new threat."
A spokesman for the UK Patent Office said the law is not designed to imprison or fine individual file-sharers.
"This law is aimed at the most dangerous activity, the organised crime gangs with warehouses of pirated materials," said UK Patent Office spokesman, Jeremy Philpott. "It is not meant to bring criminal charges to individual downloaders."
He added individual downloaders would still be subject to civil penalties, which would include injunctions and or a demand of payment for damages. They would not be hit with prison term or fines, he said.