It seems UK pirates may have to move to another country to “enjoy” the Internet at the fullest. UK government is planning to introduce a new legislation, where ISPs can ban a user’s internet account if they detect they are downloading an illegal file.
6 Million Downloaders
According to BBC, there are around 6 million people downloading illegal content from the internet in UK every year. These people download music and movies from the net through the peer-to-peer file sharing networks. These file sharing networks are causing enormous loss in revenues for the music and movie industry. Therefore, UK government is trying hard to introduce this new legislation to tackle the current piracy levels.
UK Govt. plans to introduce this as a mandatory scheme. The ISPs are required to monitor the traffic among their user base. If they fail, they may have to face the prosecution.
The Government’s proposals are difficult to implement
It may sound UK government can do this, but in realty, the proposed idea of monitoring user activity is not practical. First, reading others content is like breaching privacy. Would you allow anyone to read your stuff that is supposed to be secret?
The second one is that there are many ways you can encrypt files send over these networks. The newest encryption systems require a super computer to run for years before finding the actual key. This makes it highly difficult for an ISP to know what type of content is being shared. Thus considering the large user base and the possibility of using encryption, how an ISP will be able to track each user?
In short, it is quite un-certain how an ISP can monitor user data and able to determine that a particular file is illegal. Perhaps they could miraculously detect just the illegal peer-to-peer traffic and disable the port in use. May be that is the next step UK Govt. would propose. 
What do you think?