Plans to force UK ISPs to disconnect suspected of illegal downloading were rejected by 68% of citizens of the country. For them, at least one lawsuit in court would be required before, if the punishment be necessary. This is what the survey research firm YouGov, in the first time that the public was verified about the issue, says the newspaper “The Guardian”.

Peter Mandelson, known as Lord Mandelson, the British Secretary of Business and author of the proposal “clearly” is “against the grain of public opinion and rethink,” said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, an organization that commissioned the study.

Moreover, the question is up to something delicate for election: 44% of respondents believe that the disconnection would affect negatively their vote for a party that defended the policy.
However, although 16% were in favor of automatic sanctions based on accusations of copyright owners.

Anyway, the minister for the country’s Internet, Sion Simon, said the government will not allow any arbitrary disconnection and that “the offender (which can be, for example, a child) is often not the person responsible for the connection (perhaps one of the parents). ”

Finally we will be able to see who is stronger: the public opinion or lobbies.

Via: The Guardian.