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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. Dammit by jhdevos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody else keeps reading 'The British Pornographic Institute'?

    1. Re:Dammit by Linker3000 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Spreading anything recorded by a boy or girl band should be criminal! Listening to Girls Aloud makes me feel ashamed.

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  2. Oh Nos! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Rather then 1,728,297,198 files shared, there are 1,683,237,182 files shared.

    WHAT WILL WE DO?!?!?!

  3. According to Pete Waterman by CmdrGravy · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to Pete Waterman ( Stock, Aitken & Waterman ) it doesn't matter that UK single sales are actually rising, this is just a blip / does not alter the fact that filesharing thieves are damaging the industry. Well actually not the industry because that is doing OK but it is damaging the poorer artists who are now going to get even poorer.

    Filesharing, he says, is illegal. Just like recording songs from the radio is illegal but the bottom line so far as he is concerned is that people are listening to music and he's not getting paid for it. I really don't like Pete Waterman.

  4. Re:Pornographic Institute.. by HangingChad · · Score: 2, Funny
    I was just going to post the exact same thing. For a second I thought the Brits were pretty darn open minded to have a porn institute.

    Maybe we see what we want to see sometimes. ;)

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  5. British Phonographic Institute? by X_Caffeine · · Score: 3, Funny

    So this only applies to users who are burning MP3s to LP, right?

    it's friday, cut me some slack :D

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  6. "Major Filesharers" by HoldmyCauls · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...not to mention Private P2P and Lieutenant Limewire

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  7. Subscription by Faustust · · Score: 1, Funny

    Keep reading? Hell yeah! I have a subscription to that bitch. They got some kinky shit in there...

    Girl: *moaning*
    (Grandfather clock strikes three pm.)
    Guy: Tea time! Sorry lass, I'll have to finish you later.

  8. Irrelevant to slashdot readers by hedge_death_shootout · · Score: 2, Funny

    I distinctly recall readers' comments in a recent /. article (Ballmer on iPod) which proved that no /.ers actually posess any MP3s obtained illegally from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.

    No, really. It was all stuff ripped from their own personal CD collection and such like. Honest.

  9. we're not the example to follow by chris_morgan47 · · Score: 2, Funny

    hello i am an amerikan. just to let you know, we're not the moral compass of the world. do not follow our lead. in fact, many times, you can apply the "costanza method" and do the opposite of what our instinct is. thank you for your time

  10. Re:Pornographic Institute.. by IngramJames · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you're confusing it with the Library at Conservative Party Headquarters, aren't you?

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  11. Serendipity! by CaptainBaz · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's well timed - today I coincidentally fried my mp3 collection (and the rest of my data) anyway. Stupid hdparm...

    Every cloud really does has a silver lining, I guess. It doesn't make me feel any better about it though!

  12. Re:Pornographic Institute.. by 91degrees · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who read that as, "British Pornographic Institute"?

    Nope. The guy who posted just before you did as well.

  13. Anyone else read? by sporty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did anyone else read that as the "British Phonographic Institute". Oh wait...

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  14. Re:TV license advertisements by Smuttley · · Score: 2, Funny

    what right minded student would waste money on tuition and books?