rockdrill, I apologize if you found my comment offensive, it was not intended. I did not do serious research about things I posted, it's just the things that are on the online media these days and media can't always be trusted (if ever).
For the record, however, sending people to jail for "copyright infringement", which is basically an act of copying something by pressing two buttons, clicking a link or sharing a link, is downright retarded in my own personal opinion. Jail is intended to protect society from dangerous individuals. Somebody please tell me how any of that counts as a danger to society. As studies have proven,
it doesn't even affect sales. All the Pirate Bay admins did was hosted a bunch of links to external user machines, that had (copyrighted) files on them, so other users could connect directly and download it. How is that a crime? To be jailed for? And pay millions of dollars as fines? There is your corporation thing (corporations that pressed charges). It has nothing to do with justice. Simply a cover-up for extracting money and enforcing control – you could sentence the entire generation of teens in first world countries by "copyright" charges. Especially if
all of their online activity is monitored.
I should stop typing, this is offtopic.
I will try to find your comment about self defense in UK later, thanks for heads-up.