Italian Net users are in panic mode after leading newspaper and website Repubblica. It published an article last week claiming that the Guardia di Finanza (tax police) is prosecuting over 3,000 P2P users for illegal file sharing, staging a massive raid. The article has since been picked up by all media outlets, including national TV.
This has evoked widespread visions of hordes of pubescent youths being dragged into jail, over mamma’s high-pitched pleading with gun-toting officers, because they downloaded Eminem’s latest rap track.
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