People wrongly accused of making illegal downloads will have to pay £20 fee to appeal and prove their innocence.

Seems like they are going to go through with this since all the major isp's in the UK have blocked the Pirate bay.

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[Edited by Neo7, 6/26/2012 4:38:17 PM]

I'd say it is, yeah.

That's simply an appeal so you are allowed to 'demonstrate' your innocence. So it may even be for nothing.

"I will pay you so I am allowed to prove my innocence."

That makes perfect sense!

The £20 isn't a fine as some people are crying about, if you are accused and you receive a warning via your ISP about warez downloads etc, you have to pay £20 to contest it.

Remember also this plan is not in effect yet and may be changed at any time, whether or not you get the money back is irrelevant to the fact I think its wrong to force people to pay admin costs to appeal.

Now when BIG BROTHER does its thing on Terrorism thats great by me and also for our personal security, but our city's now have camera's everywhere and these security men operatiing them for our councils use these camera's for spying on things thats also illegal and an invasion of privacy.

I also beleive that the £20:00 fee is wrong regardless of why,if you are found guilty thats when and only then you pay your fine,the easy answer is Do not steal what you have not paid for,in the past i have used an MP3 Peer to peer sharing thats really hard today for some reason to get these free music downloads, unless you use Torrents which i do not pirate anyway.

In the Long run its this BIG BROTHER that really concerns me and our Liberties taken away,our Police think they are above the Law in the way they act and behave at times,and i cannot TOLERATE INJUSTICE.

All said have a nice week-end everybody,sorry for getting carried away on this Topic.