In March 2011, the IT department of a Swedish school discovered Hollywood movies on a student’s hard drive.
The 15-year-old schoolboy had obtained them from two torrent sites.
Rather than deal with the issue internally, the school’s head teacher escalated the matter by calling in the police to investigate.
Five months later and the boy has appeared in court but unusually for these kinds of cases, things went much better than expected.
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