Wait. Is this true? As in they have laws they just don't enforce them?
> As we said earlier, such campaigns don’t have a terribly strong history of success in the UK. The courts have also previously warned such firms to be very careful about the use of threatening language, given that those being targeted are not yet proven to be guilty of what they are accused.
> Voltage seems to require the letter recipients’ to convince the firm that they weren’t responsible, but in law, the burden of proof is normally on Voltage to prove that the recipient is the one responsible and not the other way around.
Also see:
* https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-its-a-crime-uk-govt-ignored-...
* https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/shipwrecking-online-...
* https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/new-law-to-deter-...
Then you have stuff like this: https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020/09/17/uk-police-take-un...
The fact that prosecuting authorities tend to go after distributors rather than consumers is simply due to a value-for-money calculation. There is no formal or informal decriminalisation of consumer piracy, if they could find a cheap way to go after everyone they would - and they likely will, sooner or later.
surely you can find stronger evidence than the police taking the unprecedented step of contacting - contacting, not arresting, or fining - a few tens of thousand in one region of the country?