Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that file sharing is legal, so long as the participants are not profiting from the activity. The decision overturned a guilty verdict against two students from the Turin Polytechnic Institute who set up a short-lived P2P network in 1994.
They were found guilty of illegal duplication and given prison sentences of one year apiece, later reduced on appeal to three months. However, the court has now ruled that, so long as no profit is made from sharing, there is no case to answer.
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