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The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property – a Government advisory body – has called for urgent investigations into consumers’ attitudes and behaviour in relation to offline copyright...
First prosecution for illegal fire-sharing in UK ends in not guilty verdict
The first prosecution in the UK of a person charged with illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing has ended with a not guilty verdict. The man ran an unauthorised music-sharing web site called Oink from his home...
Law firm criticised for tactics in sending thousands of letters to alleged copyright infringers
A law firm which is sending letters to thousands of alleged illegal peer-to-peer file-sharers has been accused of scattergun tactics which affect many innocent Internet users. Which?, the consumer group,...