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UK prosecutors let Bittorrent pair off the hook
THE TWO MEN behind Filesoup, a Bittorrent community website, have been acquitted after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) offered no evidence against the pair.
Filesoup is one of many private community Bittorrent websites where members share details on the latest releases distributed via Bittorrent. Typically such websites don't host any data, so the case brought by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) alleged that Stephen Lanning and George Cartledge had conspired with other Filesoup users to infringe copyrights though the website.
Such allegations are pretty standard fare but what is surprising is that the CPS couldn't come up with enough evidence against the Filesoup pair. Lawyers for the CPS told Bristol Crown Court that it was "neither necessary nor appropriate to continue to pursue the matter in a criminal court".
Solicitor for the defence, David Cook said that the prosecution could not prove elements of the offences or provide any evidence that copyrights were infringed.
Perhaps Somerset Constabulary should look into charging FACT with filing a false police report and thus wasting police time. It is perhaps ironic that the case failed to reach the courts due to a lack of facts. µ
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Not too long from now, we will start to see these greedy corporations, companies, and individuals come under cyber attack for being just that. Greedy, souless, ass monkeys. I look forward to the day when it becomes common place for this type of ridiculous activity to become a target of hackers and hacker groups.