Russia calls for file sharing legalisation

PC Pro ^ | Thursday 16th February 2006

[jb6]

Russia's chief prosecutor has called for p2p file sharing to be legalised, saying that it would help to combat 'piracy', according to a Russian news website. 'A threat to intellectual property rights in the Internet remains underestimated,' deputy prosecutor general, Vladimir Kolesnikov, told the country's parliament.

'Establishing legal websites could help decrease piracy on the Web,' he added.

Yesterday an alliance of US copyright holders called for economic sanctions to be imposed on Russia for what it described as a failure to tackle 'out of control piracy'. Unsurprisingly, the legalisation of sharing was not one of its recommendations.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Yesterday an alliance of US copyright holders called for economic sanctions to be imposed on Russia for what it described as a failure to tackle 'out of control piracy'.

I'd think the RIAA and MPAA have enough to do suing kids, but it appears they've decided to handle US foreign policy also.

[CheyennePress]

"Yesterday an alliance of US copyright holders called for economic sanctions to be imposed on Russia for what it described as a failure to tackle 'out of control piracy'."

Good luck with that. We won't even impose sanctions on Iran for developping nuclear weapons. What? We're going to impose them on Russia for letting college kids swap mp3s? Ha!

Are these guys really that full of themselves?

[x5452]

You mean all those web sites that end in dot ru and sell mp3s aren't actually legal?

[x5452]

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