http://www.ukonline.net/broadband/broadband22Mb.php

OK, so it's only in the UK (about 5% coverage). And you have to live within 300m of your exchange to get the full speed.

But even so...

UK Online reckon that anyone no more than 2km from their exchange will get speeds greater than 8Mbps which is still very good for 30 quid a month...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4422098.stm

This is Andreas. He is 28, and Swedens first prosecuted P2P user. He had *one* movie on his computer that was distributed via Direct Connect and recieved today 80 days payment penalty.

Andreas *didn't even know* the movie was on his machine as it was distributed.

The evidence was in the form of a screenshot of the investigators downloading the movie of his IP address.

Piratbyran, the swedish "pirate bureau" thought this was weak evidence and immediatelly created the evidence machine: "bevis maskinen" *currently down, bandwidth issues because of intrests in this case..

more info: http://piratbyran.org/

IFPI will start tracking IP's for illegal downloads across europe *tomorrow* (officially yesterday) for those who want to be on the safer side ;-) (mainly music)

or download TOR, previously posted by mguru.. (no guarantees that it will help though)

feel free to discuss this and related issues the case in the comments..

/EDIT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4376470.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4374222.stm

A Hong Kong man has been convicted of movie internet piracy in what is believed to be the first case involving BitTorrent file-sharing software.

Chan Nai-ming was found guilty of copyright infringement for distributing three Hollywood blockbusters using BitTorrent, said a court official.