Filesharing Crackdown – not a walk in the park

Cracking down on illegal filesharing doesn’t seem the easiest thing to do, broadband website says

Thinkbroadband.com makes a good point saying that the task of inspecting internet traffic leads to assume that rules around filesharing prove difficult to apply.

Tiscali recently demanded the BBC to support financially the required internet improvements so as to not fall behind the growing demand triggered by services like the iPlayer.

An estimation in this respect comes from Ofcom which has anticipated that the additional capacity necessary for these services could cost somewhere between £400 million and £830 million within the next five years.

According to Thinkbroadband.com cracking down on illegal filesharing is not possible without considering a provider to do an accurate inspection of the traffic and if we think how P2P clients have evolved recently the difficulty of this job seems evident.

The site points out the indispensability of a policy regarding the sharing of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Further on, it says that if the public became more aware of the fact that filesharing could actually mean fines or a loss of broadband service, it’s possible they simply go for an alternative P2P program.