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If its initial awareness campaign does not stem the flow of file-sharing among UK users, the BPI says it will pursue "serial uploaders" via civil law. BPI executive chairman Peter Jamieson says, simply, "We don't want to criminalise people."
BPI director general Andrew Yeates declines to suggest how many tracks a user must be offering to qualify as a "serial uploader", it is understood that the BP] is reluctant to divulge such details because of experiences in the US, where active uploaders reduced the number of tracks below the threshold identified by the RIAA as the level at which a user would be sued.
Yeates says the decision to use civil law will allow ...