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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

MPAA targets kids' computers

"Parent File Scan software lets parents check their children's computers for peer-to-peer programs. It will also list all movie and music files they have on their hard drive. Parents then have the choice to remove programs and files," reports BBC News.

"But some computer users who had tested the latest software reported on some technology sites that the program had identified Windows default wav files as copyrighted material and wanted to delete them."

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