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In March 2011 the IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student’s computer.

During a closer examination IT staff found that the student had 24 Hollywood movies stored on his hard drive.

“Our policy is to always notify the police if we have suspicion of a crime,” the head teacher said.

Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, a veteran of such cases, says this trial is a record-breaker – no-one this young has ever been prosecuted for file-sharing violations.

Although Ingblad says he will press for the teenager to be sentenced as a juvenile, the punishment for copyright infringements still run from fines to two years in jail.

During the hearing the boy admitted downloading movies such as The Fighter, The Mechanic, The Social Network and Scary Movie 4,...

“If the government should interfere at all with people sharing culture, it should be in the form of medals to those who share the most,” Rick Falkvinge told us.

The boy was later aquitted.

After IT staff of a swedisch school found 24 Hollywood movies stored on a 15-year-old schoolboy's harddisk, he was turned over to the police by the school's head teacher.

He is the youngest to have been prosecuted for file-sharing violations, and is facing a sentence of up to two years in jail.

Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge however believes that, if anything, the teenager should receive a medal for sharing culture.

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School Boy > head teacher > Police > Anti-Piracy-Company > Frederik Ingblad (International Public Prosecution Office) > Rick Falkvinge > (Pirate Party Founder)

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• Source story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/aug/30/google-plus-discuss-identity

Article Summary: The Google+ policy of only allowing registration with "real names" enforces a controversial notion of fixed identity, which needs to be debated and challenged if the the network is to serve its users rather than force them to conform to an oppressive, outmoded & exploitative system.

Four points that Doctorow claims are not true:

1) abolishing anonymity maximizes civility

2) we have a single identity that persists in all contexts over time

3) there is no peer pressure to you a service

4) one can foresee the long-term consequences of joining a service

• Keywords:

Identity, privacy, social networks

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