P2P Collection Costs Man Huge Fine, Suspended Sentence

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Sat, 07/04/2009 - 09:24

A 55 year old man from Vannes, France, is counting the cost after a police search on his property turned up his pirate media collection.

Back in 2006 the police, who were conducting a search linked to an unrelated fraud case, stumbled across the man’s sizable pirate media collection which included 12,591 MP3 files, 426 movies, 16 full TV-series and dozens of items of pirated software.

During the April hearing the retired IT expert said in his defense...


 

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