[Doc HM]

British file sharing site owner walks away a free man.

BBC News - Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud

So he ran a site that indexed torrent files, which generated an income of £11,000 per month for him and had £300,000 in his paypal account.

Apparently the sites users donated money to use it and he was "using the income to save up for his own server". That's one humungus server then.

This was the first criminal (as opposed to civil) prosecution for copyright infringement in the UK and it looks like for some reason (no news reports are saying why) the crown blew it.

[Doofy]

IIRC, he was charged with something like conspiracy to defraud, because copyright infringement isn't actually a criminal offence. And conspiracy to defraud is very hard to prove - it's essentially their word against yours, which doesn't really stand up in court.

[lexapro]

Why?

[The Final Dakar]

Everybody to the UK! Free music!