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