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UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers'

Posted by michael on from the look-out-granny dept.

Joel Rowbottom writes "The British Phonographic Institute has warned that it is about to engage in a round of legal action against file-sharing users, following in the footsteps of the RIAA. Apparently they are 'safeguarding the future of music' - don't you just feel so secure and cuddly knowing that?" Their statement is available.

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  1. fuck the police by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fuck, fuck the police.

    (first)

  2. british folk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The British are known for their sense of the absurd...

    _Big Al

  3. Re:Now might be the time for ANts by isorox · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    as this is slashdot, I cant be bothered reading the links. Wouldn't something like this mean

    1) Theres a lot of unneccersary use of bandwidth (If I ran a node at home, I'd be downloading and uploading a lot of traffic that I'd never use)
    2) The RIAA will go for the nodes passing the information on, which netstat will easilly display.

  4. Re:Now might be the time for ANts by elmegil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look in a mirror lately?

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  5. Re:It's a lot simpler than that by the_mad_poster · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sooo.... people who can't defend themselves in court are free to break the law from a moral standpoint? Pretty much everything else in your statement is a different topic that's not being discussed here, so it has been appropriately ignored.

    Congratulations. Here's you dunce cap. Please sit in the corner.

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