[First they came for the Jews] People
who download copyright-protected films and music would have
their Internet connection cut off under proposed laws.
The Treasury
Minister said previous plans, which would only have
restricted users' broadband speed, did not go far enough. That
potential punishment remains under the new proposal, but is accompanied
by the possibility of blocking offenders' access to download sites as
well as banning them from the Internet altogether.
Civil-rights
groups and Internet service providers criticized the proposal as
unnecessarily restricting users' rights without doing much to tackle
online piracy.
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