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In Britain, seven million Internet pirates

About seven million residents of the UK continue on the Web, begun by Sir Walter Raleigh at sea - pirating slowly.

The government agency for the protection of intellectual property (Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property, SABIP) claims that 1.3 million people use file-sharing resources every day and download information that is estimated at 120 billion pounds per year .

According to David Lammy, Deputy Head of the British Ministry of Intellectual Property, this issue cannot be resolved solely by national regulators and requires joint action at the international level.
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Earlier, nine British media associations, together with trade unions, called on the government to oblige Internet providers to block illegal file-sharing resources. According to them, more than half of all Internet traffic in Britain is the transfer of stolen content.

Providers claim that spying on users is not their responsibility.

According to SABIP, a new generation of broadband access will allow downloading data at 50 Mb / s, which is equivalent to downloading 200 MP3 files in five minutes or the complete works of Charles Dickens in ten minutes.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/60844/


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