Finally, the Finnish copyright cops have agreed to drop a case against a 9-year-old girl. The latter might have tried to download some music, but eventually paid for the album anyway. During the investigation, local cops turned up at a man’s house searching for evidence of unauthorized downloading and seized a Winnie-the-Pooh laptop of his very young daughter.
When the girl’s father was suggested to pay a civil settlement fee to the copyright outfit, he rejected. However, he changed his mind after the police showed up at his house to seize one of his girl’s possessions. The man eventually agreed to pay off the outfit named CIAPC (Finnish Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre).
Although earlier the man, who detailed the situation in his Facebook post, was asked for a €600 to settle the case, the Finnish Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre finally settled for half that amount. In any case, it was much lot more than the price of one CD, which the family had already bought anyway.
The CIAPC’s head claimed that they got an agreement with the girl’s father and reversed the investigation, which was a civil “pre-trial” matter. No more details were revealed by the Finnish copyright outfit.
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