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29 March 2019Copyright

Lawyer who sued over pornography copyright set for jail

A lawyer who sued thousands of people for copyright violations after they allegedly downloaded pornography that he planted on BitTorrent websites should be jailed for 12-and-a-half-years, the US government has said.

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