Jan 10 2007

Yo ho ho – buccanerds give studios a broadside

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A website that tells you where to get the latest films for nothing has enraged movie moguls. Simon Kurs meets the swashbucklers fighting claims of piracy

First came the pirate radio ships of the 1960s offering new musical thrills to the pop-starved young. The law closed them down yet they changed the sound of music for ever.

In the 1990s came Napster, offering computer file-sharers an illicit new means to download free tunes. The law forced it to go legitimate and charge, but not before it introduced surfers to peer-to-peer networks, which have come to define one of the internet’s most important roles in the digital era.

Now, a couple of rebellious Swedes have perfected a way to find online music, television, video, audio books, games — in fact, all the entertainment or computer software you want — in the manner of a Google for digital booty.

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