[FYI] Danish anti pirates continue to target copyright theft

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28325.html

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Danish anti pirates continue to target copyright theft  

By Tim Richardson  

Posted: 27/11/2002 at 16:23 GMT  

The Danish Anti Pirat Gruppen (Anti Piracy Group) is to continue 
targeting Net users who swap copyright material illegally.  

[...]

"Most were surprised that we were able to discover them," Mr 
Lindegaard told The Register.  

And in a clear warning to Danish Net users, he insisted that APG 
would continue to pursue this approach to crackdown on copyright 
infringements.  

"If we can stop people sharing [music and video files] we should be 
able to solve the problem," he said.  

At the moment the APG is targeting people who are offering music and 
films -for free - for other people to download. It has no plans at 
the moment to target end-users.  

No doubt this approach will be viewed as a means of "scaring" some 
people from obtaining material illegally.  

Indeed, only last week an intellectual property lawyer who works with 
the Federation against Software Theft (FAST) suggested that action 
against end-users will "increasingly be the only way to break a 
widespread habit" of copyright theft.  

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