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Friday 2nd March, 2007 16:38 Comments: 0
Sky News have just published an exclusive (because no one else would dare publish it?) article, Unsafe: Music File Sharing. Sky's Paul Harrison said Andy Coyle from London was innocently searching for music using such software (perhaps the word innocently should be in quotes?) when he came across other people's sensitive documents. They included passport details of film stars and other celebrities, contact details and other personal data. Harrison said the implications was potentially huge.

Weren't these sort of issues first mentioned way back in 2000? Napster arrived in 1999, but was only really designed for sharing MP3s; it wasn't until Gnutella and FastTrack appeared in 2000-2001 that it became very easy to accidentally share all your files, depending on what options you'd selected in the client. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to download Radiohead's Kid A using Napster over my 56k modem :P

Oh wait, it's the year 2007, and I own the album on CD!
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