{"id":6194,"date":"2009-08-26T05:31:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T04:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/piracy-plan-%e2%80%98is-illegal%e2%80%99\/6194\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T05:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T04:31:49","slug":"piracy-plan-%e2%80%98is-illegal%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/piracy-plan-%e2%80%98is-illegal%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"PIRACY PLAN \u2018IS ILLEGAL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introcopy\"><span class=\"bold\">Brendan Abbott<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"introcopy\">PLANS to suspend the internet accounts of \u201ccopyright pirates\u201d who illegally download and swap films and music could breach human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Broadband providers and consumer rights groups warned yesterday \u201cpersuasion not coercion\u201d was the way to stop piracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storycopy\">Stephen Timms, minister for Digital Britain, said previous schemes, which only cut users\u2019 broadband speed, were not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storycopy\">Internet service providers could also be allowed to take action against pirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storycopy\">In the year to July 2008, 6.5 million Britons illegally downloaded music and films. <!-- 1251248035.35--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Abbott PLANS to suspend the internet accounts of \u201ccopyright pirates\u201d who illegally download and swap films and music could breach human rights. Broadband providers and consumer rights groups warned yesterday \u201cpersuasion not coercion\u201d was the way to stop piracy. Stephen Timms, minister for Digital Britain, said previous schemes, which only cut users\u2019 broadband speed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicence-technology","7":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}