[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Russ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27330150

Somehow I get the impression that at best it'll take the edge off the flow of piracy for perhaps a day or so the back to normal.

It will not stem the tide. If you are going to use torrents then use a VPN and private tracker. If you are going to use the newsgroups then use a VPN.
The only way you would then be picked up on by the BPI goons is if the ISP's are using DPI devices and are intercepting encrypted traffic (which to my knowledge they are not). The only people that will get letters are those daft enough to use non private trackers and without using a vpn. So the answer is wear protection people.