Re: Today on fines for using filesharing 'websites'

miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote:
> thanks, Ian - I still may be wrong though, as what follows below is all 
> that is enacted - it still is not clear as to whether it is a criminal 
> or civil offense, although under initial reading 2 years ago I was under 
> the impression that it was now a criminal offence in the UK.

s.198 describes the criminal offences related to making recordings of 
performances available to the public without consent:
http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/legislation/legislation.pdf