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New policy will be bring into effect that people who illegally download movies and music can be cut off from internet. Then ISPs will be legally required to take actions against users who access pirated material.

The new policy has 3 steps: 

1. Users suspected of wrongly downloading films or music will receive a warning e-mail for the first offence.

2. A suspension will begin if the illegal downloading happens again.

3. If be caught for the third time, users may face the termination of their internet contracts.

This "3-strike" action is ordered for enforcement, and ISPs who fail to enforce would be sued and suspected customers' information could be made available to the courts.

And it isn't over. The government said that if the “3-strike” action cannot control the numbers of illegal users in the current situation which 6 million broadband users are estimated to download files illegally every year in the UK, further action could be down, including charging a ￡30 annual tax for each internet user. The money raised would be channeled back to record companies, with artists receiving a cut depending on their sales.

I'm very much in favor of the British government's new policy, and I'm looking forward to seeing the same attitude of protecting copyright from the Chinese government.

Pirated stuff is spread unchecked in China, and the situation is not limited to entertainment industry alone, IT industry is also suffer from great loss caused by copyright violation. We all know that the software industry is a very important component of IT industry, and since that nobody is willing to buy authorized software at a relatively high price, the traditional software companies would rather turn into a service provider instead of staying in that profitless field. Ultimately, it ends up with a monstrosity, prosperous IT industry with a depauperate software industry.

As a consequence, we got not even one decent software company like SAP, like Microsoft. We have to make this situation expired if we want to revive out high-tech area, especially when nowadays Chinese netizens becomes the largest netizen group by exceeding American. We are not lack of talented person, and I believe that will be the last thing we should worry about, our shortcoming is the attitude toward copyright protecting, not only the government's but also the citizens'. Our people are getting more and more used to using pirated stuff without any hesitating, they just don't consider using pirated stuff is actually a kind of real violation. And if this steadfast stereotype won't change, nothing would change either.