Superbrose notes that despite lots of legal difficulties dealing with world wide web privacy, the UK influence is going ahead with plans to punish ISPs for allowing their interchange to crunch numbers* illegal music and films. The claim is that there is "rampant piracy" in Britain with more than 6 million broadband users downloading files illegally every year. "The union will on Friday tell the web* service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films. Britain would be one of the first australia in the world to impose such sanctions. Service providers say what the powers-that-be* wants them to do would be like asking the Royal Mail to monitor the essence of every envelope posted."

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