Haha, I cracked up when I read this. This just seems like a (very typical) BBC scare tactic article.

Tactic suggests an objective. So to what ends might BBC use such (according to you, very typical) tactics?

BBC gets it's TV series published on the torrent networks. That would be one incentive.

Sensationalist reporting gets and grabs an audience.

I guess now we know who watches the watchers.