Digital Economy Act likely to increase households targeted for piracy

Fears increase that law firms may hone in on innocent web users who don't illegally downloadGill Murdoch and her husband, Ken MacKinnon, were surprised when a threatening lawyer's letter came through the door of their Inverness home. It demanded that they pay £500 immediately because they had allegedly made available a copy of a computer game – Risk II – so that it could be pirated across the internet. The pair, 56 and 68 respectively, were stunned, not least because neither pla...

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