pimg src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45418000/jpg/_45418624__45390088_downloading_other226b-1.jpg" align="left" width="226" height="170" alt="Hand putting CD into computer" border="0" vspace="4" hspace="4"/pp class="first"bAround seven million people in the UK are involved in illegal downloads, costing the economy tens of billions of pounds, government advisors say./bpResearchers found 1.3m people using one file-sharing network on one weekday and estimated that over a year they had free access to material worth pound;120bn. /ppThe a href="http://www.sabip.org.uk/"Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property/a (SABIP) warned it may be hard to change attitudes. /ppThe government says work must be done internationally to tackle the problem. /ppIntellectual property minister David Lammy said the report put into context the impact illegal downloads had on copyright industries and the UK economy as a whole. /ppBut he added: quot;This is not an issue confined by national boundaries and I am sure that other [EU] member states and their copyright industries will find this report of use in the development of policy.quot; /ppAn alliance of nine UK bodies representing the creative industries recently joined trades unions in calling on the government to force internet service providers to cut off persistent illegal file-sharers. /ppThey said more than half of net traffic in the UK was illegal content. /ppbCopyright confusion/b/ppInternet service providers say it is not their job to police the web. /ppThe latest report for the SABIP, said the new generation of broadband access at 50Mbps could deliver 200 MP3 files in five minutes, a DVD in three and the complete digitised works of Charles Dickens in less than 10. /ppIt said the seven million people who access files illegally could not all be students and that many of them were uncertain about what was illegal. /ppThe fact that so much on the internet is free only added to the confusion, it said. /ppDame Lynne Brindley, SABIP Board member, said: quot;This report gives us some baseline evidence from which we can develop a clear research strategy to support policy development in this fast moving area.quot;/phrpThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk"BBC News website/a. #169; British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./pdiv class="feedflare"
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