Singapore cracks down on music file-sharing offenders
Nur Dianah Suhaimi writes for Reuters:
Three Internet users have been arrested in Singapore and charged with distributing digital music files in the city-state's first crackdown on illegal file sharing, Singapore police said on Thursday.
The three young men who were arrested, between the ages of 16 to 22, had shared more than 20,000 files in internet chatrooms.
It was the first time Singapore police have clamped down on web surfers who download pirated music and films since new copyright laws came into effect in January this year.
Under the amended Copyright Act, anyone who illegally downloads files on a "commercial scale" could face criminal charges, including five years in jail and fines of up to S$100,000.
posted by Fergie @ 8/18/2005 07:44:00 AM
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