| In a heavily disputed and protested decision it was | | | | Late last year scientists announced that there was a |
| announced "France tracking file sharing users". This | | | | Big Bang of gamma-rays spotted 12 billion light-years |
| means that French record companies are legally | | | | away. Space observers, using the Fermi telescope, |
| allowed to follow users of peer to peer file networks | | | | owned and operated by the United States space |
| if they are sharing more than 50 files in any 24 hour | | | | agency, were the ones who detected and reported |
| period. All of the files being tracked will have to be | | | | the explosion. It has caused a lot of excitement in |
| found to be legally shareable and distributable, | | | | the scientific world with scientists declaring the blast |
| meaning that they are not protected by copyright. | | | | as the biggest gamma-ray burst that has ever been |
| Otherwise those sharing the files could be found | | | | recorded. The explosion happened in the Carina |
| guilty of copyright violations. With so many users on | | | | constellation last September and produced a massive |
| such networks and so many files being transferred | | | | amount of energy according to astrophysicists |
| these record companies have a big job ahead of | | | | studying the blast. Observations such as this one |
| them to filter through all the legal sharing to find | | | | continue to increase the excitement over what is yet |
| those which are not. | | | | to be discovered in space as our ability to observe |
| Exciting Space Discovery | | | | further and further out is increasing. |