UK Pub Owner Fined Due To Unauthorized Downloads On Free Pub WiF...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 11/30/2009 - 08:00

A bunch of folks have sent in the story of a nameless pub owner in the UK who has supposedly been fined £8,000 in a lawsuit brought by a copyright holder over unauthorized downloads that were done over free WiFi that the pub offered.

Of course, there is a lot of missing information here, so I'm not quite sure how much to believe of this story without further evidence.

The name of the pub is not given. The information...

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