Sweden Begins Full Out Battle Against File Sharing

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:00

File sharing, file sharing, file sharing. Whether it's college students by BitTorrent, schoolkids copying tracks off their friends during study hall — do they even still have study hall?

— or grandmas making Glenn Miller mix tapes, file sharing seems to be everywhere. At least, that's the story the record industry is telling — to anyone who will listen — and the one they'll be telling a Swedish court starting this week, as the four founders of the Tracker...

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