Two P2P users in the United States have pleaded guilty to distributing copyright material and face five years' jail and a fine of up to $250,000.

The Feds were responding to pressure from the major record and movie mulitnationals and have now secured their first P2P piracy convictions. Investigators downloaded material worth $25,000 from hubs of the "Underground Network", the Justice Department said. The DoJ portrayed this as a blow against major crime. But $25,000 equates to just 300 DVDs and just over a thousand CDs: not a particularly large library for a culture-consuming household.

The pair are due to be sentenced on 29 April. ®

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