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WASHINGTON Aug. 25, 2004 — Federal agents seized computers and software Wednesday as part of an investigation targeting an Internet network used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.

The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers.

......"The message is simply this: P2P or peer-to-peer does not stand for 'permission to pilfer,'" Ashcroft told reporters........

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/...0825_1481.html

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