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20/08/2008
Illegal file sharing case leads to £16,000 fine |
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A woman has been fined £16,000 as part of a crackdown on illegal file sharing.
The unnamed woman will be forced to pay damages to computer games manufacturer Topware Interactive after she was found guilty of downloading their Dream Pinball 3D game and sharing it with others on a peer-to-peer network.
It will be one of the first cases of its kind in the UK and Sky News blogger, Peter Hoskins, believes it could open the flood gates for similar cases.
Mr Hoskins said that the news seemed "to herald a whole new, tougher approach to file sharing and could well lead to an avalanche of court cases and huge fines".
Davenport Lyons, the law firm who has launched civil proceedings against 100 people for illegal file sharing, has said that the High Court has ordered internet service providers to give details of those they suspect are guilty of copyright infringement. |
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