{"id":22,"date":"2004-05-21T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/22"},"modified":"2004-05-21T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T12:05:54","slug":"risk-of-jail-for-downloading-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/risk-of-jail-for-downloading-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of jail for downloading music"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I don't normally post things like this, but The Register has just published this article<\/a> about a new law in Italy. The thrust of it is that anyone downloading copyright material without permission faces 3 years in prison.<\/p>\n

I'm no expert, but this looks pretty draconian as it covers any sort of download, not just major file-share networks.<\/p>\n

And with the introduction of Napster pay-per-download in the UK, it looks as though the face of the web is changing yet again.<\/p>\n

For all sorts of free and wonderful things I use the great SourceForge<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t