With a landmark Supreme Court hearing on online file sharing slated for March 29, Hollywood is stepping up its multimillion-dollar, international PR blitz to keep peer-to-peer networks in the public eye and to characterize men, women and children who share music and other files online as hardened criminals. Swedish police, acting for America’s movie studio cartel, raided the Stockholm offices of Bahnhof, Sweden’s largest ISP.
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The File-Sharing Follies
Posted by: Jon Newton March 15, 2005 05:00 AMWith a landmark Supreme Court hearing on online file sharing slated for March 29, Hollywood is stepping up its multimillion-dollar, international PR blitz to keep peer-to-peer networks in the public eye and to characterize men, women and children who share music and other files online as hardened criminals. Swedish police, acting for America’s movie studio cartel, raided the Stockholm offices of Bahnhof, Sweden’s largest ISP.