Dropping this article effectively gives european countries the power to ask ISPs to remove users that they beleive are percistantly sharing copyrighted material. While this might seem like a solution to the problem, it has been demonstrated that innocent people could find that they are cut off if the wireless network is being misused by a third party without their knowledge.

There is also a strong suggestion that having access to the internet is a human right, like access to water, gas and electricity. EU legislation has already been adopted stating that internet access is “critical for the practical exercise of a wide array of fundamental rights”.

Under the new legislation, the file-sharer would first be sent an email, then a letter and finally they would be cut-off with the approval of a judge. (That is assuming that they know what an Internet is.) In my opinion, technology moves a lot quicker than legislation and so there will always be ways to circumvent the legislation such as encrypting data or making the filesharing annonymous. The law will always be trying to catch up with technology.