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[PSUs]| Thursday 16th February 2006 |
Russia calls for file sharing legalisation
11:13AM, Thursday 16th February 2006
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.
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