Friday, January 15, 2010

Founder of UK music file-sharing site held not guilty of conspiracy to defraud

Alan Ellis, the founder of a music file-sharing website in the UK called Oink, has been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud.  The prosecution argued that Ellis received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from Oink users, but none of the money went to the musicians who created the music that was being shared through his site.

Read the BBC article here; read the Times Online article here.

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