Its mean to be for criminals who share masses of torrents rather than your average donwloader.
They will be warned several times before any action is taken.
Its a maximum sentence only so it would rarely be used.
Its just a proposal. Its not statute yet.
The government has its hands full at the moment and this wont be a priority. They dont understand the internet very well and seem to want to sanitise it.
I dont think people here are much bothered, but they wouldnt wake up until people were going to jail. When you see the actual bill then you will see its wwatered down, but its hard to comment until they have a draft. People in the UK unlikely to accept something thats inrusive or puts them at risk. they have already tried to deal with torrents before and the furthest they have got is a potential three warnings from your ISP before they cut your connection and getting the ISP to block the main torrent websites, but people just use proxies and VPN's.
There is no outcry from the general punlic for this. Its the copyright holders. the government will listen to whats popular with the voters. It may not even survive if the referendum doesnt go its way.