Your wrong, the uk is just as bad as any other country learn your facts before posting this crap, your giving people the wrong impression they have just the same laws as the united states.
Lol, you are wrong very wrong, i suggest you read things like the Copyright Design & Patent Act, and look at the only two uk court cases on this matter, and you will see that at this current time i am correct the uk is safe to facilitate, and even downloading is not overally serious, as uk copyright law specificically mentions you can only be forced to pay a single copy of the work.
Once again your wrong, a simple court order that costs a few bucks to file in court can get all of your legal information, name, address, phone number, directly from the isp or data center. It doesn't cost more than $50 to do all this, and you think the huge companies are going to go broke from this? Hell no your a fool, they can charge you up to 1 million dollars per copyright violation fact is no matter what they always win, you can't defend against a billion dollar company.
I suggest you re-read my point, Yes they can get your infomation from the data center, domain registrar, no matter where you are, i never said they couldent i said, Cross Juristicion is more difficult, and that if the host does not co-operation, then it is again even more difficult, i never said improssible, lets take PRQ, they only have an email address on file i believe, so all they can hand over is the persons email, not infomation they dont have.
On your second point 1 million dollars per copyright violation fact is absolute crap, lets put linking aside and say you in fact hosted files directly from your server, and it could be provided that you athorised someone to download the files to your server, or downloaded them yourself or someone on your behalf did it, ALL YOU CAN BE FINED IN THE UK IS THE PRICE OF
ONE SINGLE WORK so if you had MP3's which cost $1.99 each, you can only be charged $1.99 an mp3.
Secondly your point about "they always win, you can't defend against a billion dollar company" Again a load of bullshit, in the usa they may always win, In the UK where the laws are diffrent, the ONLY two court cases (Alan Elis Of Oink, and the Tv-Links.co.uk Owner who i cannot remember the name of atm) to reach court to date have been decided in the defendants favour, e.g. the "billion dollar company's" have currently LOST in 100% of the Uk court cases.
These "billion dollar company" have equally currently not attempted to take the owners to the small claims court, where the onus of proof to win is much lower, to try and claim the cost of one copy of the work, which frankly i believe they would loose anyway as the owner did not authorise the downloads to the work (e.g. mp3 or what ever) and they where not doing it on his behalf, again two things that the current UK Copyright law, says you need to even get granted the price of 1 copy of the work.
If you download an Mp3 from the pirate bay, your ip is harvested and it goes to court, then the court can grant the price of one of the mp3 (so lets keep with the $1.99 of erlier), so they take you to court, pay thousands to do so just to recover $1.99, this to me does not make business sence which is probably why, there has not been any actual court cases against downloaders (ACS Law thretened it, got put under preasure then sneakily tried to get default judgments, (e.g. they didnt challenge clients with legal representation) they challenged ones who had not replied, at the 11th hour when it was not going in their favour they tried to drop even these cases, the current outcome is the actual copyright owners have to join the cases, as only the actual owner or exclusive licencee can bring court proceedings, the likely hood is these cases will end up bring dropped in march).
I would also like to request that you refrain from personal insults, like fool and before you comment on a matter with such comments as "same laws as the united states." then i really do suggest you read the LAW of the country you are commenting on, UK Law, e.g. the current uk copyright law, namely the Copyright Design & Patent Act and the two court cases, you atleast do a google, as if you be bothered to do your research from information freely avaible, the CDAPA is even avaible from a goverment website, you would know that my comments are factually accurate, where as yource do not apply to the uk.
Thanks
Delboy
(where facilitiation is legal) hence i didnt shut down and moved my sites to Ukraine, been there 5 months now its nice country, not one single email from our ukraine host, about complaints from baf, bigfish games, etc. Our host is so great they did not even put an abuse email on our ips