Will this £30 charge be passed on to EVERY internet user!

Very fuddled thinking. Copying and "sharing" has been going on since the birth of the tape recorder. This merely stops it happening over the internet. In any case, there is so much unsecured wifi around these days, it's a simple matter to log on to someone else's IPS.

Personally, I can't understand why anyone would bother - it's cheap enough to download stuff legitimately . . . and at far higher quality than something that's been bodged about in cyber-space for a while.

And this PROVES that all this fuss is government led because they are missing out on VAT if someone shares music with someone else. It's nothing to do with the state of the music industry. The music industry has never been healthier.

The fact that we have to suffer televised auditions for manufactured "stars" speaks for itself. No. This is all about our stupid, money-grabbing government trying to grab even more. It's just a sophisicated stealth tax.

Anyway, anyone who knows a bit about networks will EASILY bypass any measures an ISP puts in place. You don't need to use someone else's connection. You can do it from your own connection in your own home.

I have no sympathy for the music industry. Album CDs which cost £14.99 in the UK should be more like £4.99.

People are fed-up with being ripped off.

Why not target the ISPs that allow pirated music to be UPLOADED instead?