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by nsteel 1452 days ago
There's more of a focus on "commercial-scale" pirates. There used to be fines handed out to individuals but I thought they had given up on that a while back, but maybe not: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/09/customers-of-v...

> As we said earlier, such campaigns don’t have a terribly strong history of success in the UK. The courts have also previously warned such firms to be very careful about the use of threatening language, given that those being targeted are not yet proven to be guilty of what they are accused.

> Voltage seems to require the letter recipients’ to convince the firm that they weren’t responsible, but in law, the burden of proof is normally on Voltage to prove that the recipient is the one responsible and not the other way around.

Also see:

* https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-its-a-crime-uk-govt-ignored-...

* https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/shipwrecking-online-...

* https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/new-law-to-deter-...