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Litigation against file-sharers rolls on. On the film front, "potentially trying to avoid a pr disaster after suing a … Wisconsin grandfather for $600,000 because his 12 year-old grandson downloaded four movies, the MPAA has offered Fred Lawrence a deal: pay $4,000 over 18 months to settle the case," BetaNews reports. The grandfather says he knows nothing about file-sharing, they already own three of the movies on DVD, his grandson knows nothing about copyright law, and he's on a fixed income and can't even afford the $225/month. Lawrence is going to fight the lawsuit. Here's the Associated Press on this. In Hong Kong, a man has been jailed for three months for file-sharing movies with BitTorrent, the BBC reports. "The authorities say he is the first person in the world to be prosecuted for passing on files using a popular file-sharing program called BitTorrent," the BBC adds. And South Korea's largest online music service, Soribada, shut down its file-sharing operation, as ordered by the Seoul Central District Court," The Register reports. The court order resulted from legal action taken by South Korea's equivalent of the RIAA, the Korean Association of Phonogram Producers.