UK woman collared for videogame filesharing
A woman in the UK has been ordered to pay 16,000 pounds for sharing a videogame over filesharing networks. While most of the stories with regards to filesharing in the UK are related to illegal music downloads, this is a case of videogame downloads being thrust into the spotlight.
The danger for filesharing advocates is that this could open up the posibiilty of thuosands more lawsuit for people accused of using filesharing services to share videogames, movies and other copyrighted material.
The woman has to pay 6,000 pounds to the owner of the game Dream Pinball 3D. The other six grand is for court costs. There is something of a filesharing crackdown going on in the UK at the moment as the UK’s top-six ISPs have pledged to restrict the Internet speeds of people who persitently violate copyright laws by using filesharing programs such as Limewire and Ares.
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