[DDH]

GlenR I think you've hit the practical side of this right on the head.

I downloaded via uTorrent the other day a 750Mb avi file of my UK grandmothers most recent wedding to her 18 year old sweetheart. So to tell if this was a copyrighted work someone else had to download all the pieces and put them together then determine if the work was in fact subject to copyright (which it was because grandma is a wily old lady), so I as the downloader then would have to prove that I had permission, which was gained verbally when I last spoke to her on the phone. But hang on, the monitoring authority didn't have permission, so they both broke copyright and increased granny's uploads - do they get a strike? Wow - who is doing all this work to protect granny? And does granny get damages if it was found that she was ripped off, or is this proposal just punitive for the offender?

Perhaps the politicians should leave this thought in the "too hard basket" where it belongs right next to the "can of worms".