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[FYI] Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28286.html
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Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills
By Kasper Larsen
Posted: 26/11/2002 at 00:23 GMT
The Danish Anti Pirat Gruppen (Anti Piracy Group) has issued invoices
of up to $14,000 apiece to approximately 150 users of KaZaA and
eDonkey for illegally downloading copyright material.
APG monitored the file sharing networks for available files with
Danish IP addresses - and went to court to get the users' personal
details from their ISPs, armed with screen shots of, for example, the
KaZaA window showing the files on the user's hard-drive. The courts
obliged and ordered the ISPs to deliver the personal details of the
incriminated users. Then the bills were in the post ... landing on
the mats of the unfortunate downloaders over the last few days.
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