As a result of the modification of the copyright law in Italy through Urbani Law, an administrator of an OpenNap server, « Soniknap5 » was condemned for illegal sharing of music files.

The Italian Urbani law modified in March 2005, stipulates administrative penalties for those downloading copyrighted files from the Internet but penal sanctions for those sharing on the Internet with other users copyrighted files. According to the law, the condemned persons may pay penal fines as an alternative to imprisonment.

As an alternative to two months and ten days of prison, the Italian administrator of OpenNap was fined to the payment of 3660 Euros for having shared music files to about 2500 users. This condemnation came as a result of a large international operation involving several Italian server administrators and users of P2P.

P2P, Italian OpenNap Administrator Condemned (only in Italian) ( 13.01.2006)
http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=57221&r=PI

Urbani Law, Modifications approved (only in Italian) (24.03.2005)
http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=52069