UK Anti-Piracy Plans Cost More Than Music Industry 'Losses'
Found on Torrent Freak on Tuesday, 22 September 2009
If the BPI's 'losses' figures are to be believed (and we have to go along with the ridiculous premise of 1 download = 1 lost sale in order to do so), saving £200m worth of business will end up costing ISPs almost double that amount.
"Their [music industry] claims are melodramatic and assume people would buy all the music that is illegally downloaded, which is nonsense," said Petter.
Indeed, by spending a measly £3.00 per month on a cheapo VPN service from the likes of SwissVPN, it's possible for any user to tunnel right out of the UK and no-one in the country will have a clue what they are doing on their connection.
The music industry will not care about the costs, because they don't have to pay it. That would change if the ISPs would charge them for that "service".