10 Year prison

UK proposes 10 Year prison for Online Pirates who illegally upload/download torrents

This will allow the courts to hand out prison sentences up to 10 years to such copyright offenders. These changes have been proposed after a government-backed study suggested that online copyright infringement should be considered similar to offences like counterfeiting.

A few months earlier, a study sponsored by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) concluded that the maximum punishment sentence being awarded for the online copyright infringement is not enough.