Lord Mandelson Has UK File-sharers In Sight In Clampdown

The Business Secretary Lord Mandelson seems set to take a stiffer stance to crack down hard on illegal file sharing over the web, with new set of regulations that could make the offenders see their connections cut off or even pay as much as £50,000 in damages. In the proposed draconian move, Lord Mandelson is intending to criminalise a whopping seven million internet users, a substantive proportion of the UK population, who keep on downloading the copyrighted...