MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single DL!

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Fri, 11/13/2009 - 02:00

The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie.


 

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