14 DAY TRIAL // The British Phonographic Industry, alias BPI, has announced that it will summon other Internet providers to reveal the identity of subscribers who illegally downloaded files, the organization targeting other 33 "dangerous" Internet surfers.
Five providers are already negotiating with BPI and it seems that they will have to come up with the information, or else they risk harsh penalties. According to BPI information, the uploaders have illegally posted over 72,000 music files.
A month ago, BPI was announcing that it succeeded in obtaining a court order which forces ISPs to declare the names and addresses of those who share copyrighted files. Now, BPI has made public the information about the persons targeted by that action.
Among the 33 cases, a third of them are related to parents whose children thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to online "smuggle" music files, actions which have probably ended with physical corrections and with BPI applying sanctions.
A BPI representative has detailed the situations of those persons, but the authorities were lenient considering that the adults were unaware of the children's actions. However, BPI wasn't that lenient to forget the whole thing, as it tries to set an example for those who intend to illegally download music.
In the past two years, illegal downloading caused the British music industry to lose half a billion pounds.