Thread: 3 Strikes Rule?
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Old 6th July 2008, 07:49 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: 3 Strikes Rule?

I was interested to read the other day that four peole in the UK have been sucessfully prosecuted for sharing a game using P2P. Key interest getting points are that none attended the hearing, knowing why could be interesting; the law company involved sniffed out the suspects and then approached the copyright holder - translate these guys are your typical ambulance chasers; and the game the breach involved cost less than ten pounds.
A good lawyer may have found a breach of privacy or civil rights issues that got them off the hook but the case has set a precedent now.
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