Piracy effectively legal in the UK!

[The Fury]

Ka-pi96 said:

The Fury said:
If they know who you are and that you are doing something like sharing music/films, the companies that own the copyright to those mediums can sue you. No jail but maybe bankruptcy isn't a great prospect.

Not sure if they can though. It does say the music and film industries had a hand in creating these rules, besides Europe's copyright laws have always seemed to favour the individual rather than the company more than in other parts of the world.

They have enough lawyers to find out a way but even if they know they can't win, they can ruin people by just suing. It costs money to form a defence, sometimes more than what the people have. This is the bit that's meant to scare them but this is all just a guess, like you say, maybe they won't bother.