the dark lord mandelson will crush his enemies like ants!
while his personal bank account swells at the expense of UK public funds.

what is there not to like about this man?(!)

You can see already that people are aware of the ways to avoid being caught. An article like this 1yr ago would have produced a lot more comments than these 2. Users are hiding themselves even to the extent of not making anonymous comments on tech news sites!
Talk about pushing P2P underground...

Considering that BT was one of the ISP's that handed over ten's of thousands of users details without a fight to law firm ACS in a copyright infringment case there can be little doubt that in their case this is pure self interest.