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Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28286.html

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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