technically speaking its for people who are downloading as well as those sharing files as these are copyright materials you have not paid for in many cases.

Its strange however that most people in the UK actually get prosecuted for the distribution of copyright material as many popular file sharing systems such as bittorrent send and receive at the same time, rather than for just downloading

As a matter of interest on the subject, it is not even legal in the UK to ripp songs from a CD to put on your iPod you are actually breaking the law.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...your-iPod.html

shows you how far behind the times, uk copyright law is