Czech police, IFPI, file share op
p2pnet.net news:- On IFPI say-so, Czech police have raided people’s private homes looking for evidence of file sharing, says ceskenoviny.cz.
Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) came up with a list of people it thought may have shared music online and based on that, “Czech police searched 13 homes of suspected file-sharers on April 11 and seized 20 PCs, three external discs and a hundred of CD ROMs,” says the story.
Ceskenoviny.cz has local IFPI spokesman Jaromir Soukup saying Czech copyright infringers, “face up to two years in prison and a fine twice as high as the damage caused”.
Also See:
ceskenoviny.cz – Czech court issues first sentence for illegal music file sharing, April 19, 2007
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