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Lightbulb Cyber-criminals - 09-09-2008, 07:17 PM

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Would somebody explain the point of this? Aren't these victims using P2P because they're poor? So this seems like performing armed robbery on homeless guys -- easy to do, but you won't gain much from it.

Some of them might actually pay this extortion money, so the cyber-criminals (this being The RIAA or someone else ) ARE doing this for a reason


This kind of bullying practice made by the media industry has now been stopped in Denmark via an epoch-making decision in the Eastern Regional High Court on Friday - more on this here:


http://www.aom3.org/forum/f5/huge-le...html#post46752 (A HUGE legal system defeat for IFPI, Denmark, could create a precedent in Europe)
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