Court Acquits BitTorrent User Citing Faulty Evidence

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Mon, 03/15/2010 - 15:38

Last year LANVA reported the IP-addresses of 106 users of the country’s largest BitTorrent site to the police.

The anti-piracy group claimed that the site’s users were sharing a copy of the Windows 7 Ultimate operating system and took action on behalf of Microsoft without notifying the software company.

The self-proclaimed investigators evidence consisted of a screenshot of peers as listed by uTorrent.

The evidence was gathered in conjunction with a local police officer, but none of the...

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