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Danish anti pirates continue to target copyright theft
By Tim Richardson
Posted: 27/11/2002 at 16:23 GMT
The Danish Anti Pirat Gruppen (Anti Piracy Group) is to continue targeting
Net users who swap copyright material illegally.
Confirmation that the APG is to continue its hard line comes after it
issued invoices totalling 1m Danish Crowns (£86,200) to around 150 users
of KaZaA and eDonkey for allegedly illegally swapping copyright material.
The biggest offenders face bills of around 100,000 Crowns (£8,600).
According to Morten Lindegaard, a lawyer for APG, around 80 per cent of
those who received the invoices have already agreed to pay up. Those that
don't face being sued.
"Most were surprised that we were able to discover them," Mr Lindegaard
told The Register.
And in a clear warning to Danish Net users, he insisted that APG would
continue to pursue this approach to crackdown on copyright infringements.
"If we can stop people sharing [music and video files] we should be able
to solve the problem," he said.
At the moment the APG is targeting people who are offering music and films
-for free - for other people to download. It has no plans at the moment to
target end-users.
No doubt this approach will be viewed as a means of "scaring" some people
from obtaining material illegally.
Indeed, only last week an intellectual property lawyer who works with the
Federation against Software Theft (FAST) suggested that action against
end-users will "increasingly be the only way to break a widespread habit"
of copyright theft.
So could Net users in the UK face similar tactics as being carried out in
Denmark?
A spokesman for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - which works to
combat music piracy, among other things - said that it has no plans at
present to follow APG's approach to combating the illegal downloading of
music.
"But we wouldn't rule it out," he said.
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