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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Indexing company liable for users' infringement, says High Court

UK - Indexing company liable for users' infringement, says High Court
(OUT-LAW News)

A company which indexes and sorts postings to Usenet groups is liable for the copyright infringement of its users when they download films, software and television programmes, the High Court has said. Newzbin is a company that charged users 30p per week for access to its indexing and collation of media files posted to discussion groups on the Usenet system.
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