UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers'

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.

Comments

In the red corner, spotty teenager...

[pandrijeczko]

This is gonna be FUN!

Let's look at the facts:

1. Teenagers and those under or around the age of 25 do most of the file-sharing.

2. The same age-group buy all the formulaic "music-by-numbers" trash that infests the music charts.

3. The record companies make their profits from plastic, injection-moulded pop star clones because those are the "musicians" (term used loosely) who they can pay to spit out a few MOBO ballads and then ditch them when they start demanding too much money after a couple of successful soulless singles.

So, either the BPI wins in which case spotty teenager can no longer download his music and has to be a lot more discerning in his musical tastes...

or

spotty teenager wins and it no longer becomes productive for record companies to churn out Britney Sucks clones or boy bands...

Hell, I don't know about you guys but I'm getting a front row seat with my Led Zeppelin CDs, a bag of popcorn and a big bucket of coke!

Re:Now might be the time for ANts

[the_mad_poster]

It's OK to download music until you decide to sell it.

Even if that were clearly true, it would be totally offtopic seeing as how we're talking about UPLOADING music.

Tell me, does socialism make you stupid, or does being stupid make you socialist?