Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () beat net>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:17:43 +0100
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills

Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills
By Kasper Larsen
The London Register
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.

The users are charged about $16 per CD and about $60 per full length movie.
If they pay now - and delete the illegal content from their hard drives -
then the amount is cut in half and they avoid going to court. Those who
don't pay up are to be sued.

--SNIP--

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

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