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UK man cleared of music downloading crime

15 January 2010

Emma Barraclough, London

A criminal court in the UK has cleared a man who set up a music file-sharing website of conspiracy to defraud

Alan Ellis, who set up website OiNK, which had allowed members to download more than 20 million songs for free, was charged after police closed down the site following a raid...



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