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BPI Sue AllOfMp3 In British Courts
Ckwop writes "AllOfMp3 is getting sued by the British Phonographic Industry. From the article:
"We have maintained all along that this site is illegal and that the operator of the site is breaking UK law by making sound recordings available to UK-based customers without the permission of copyright owners. Now we will have the opportunity to demonstrate in the UK courts the illegality of this site."
" The issue of course will be whether any injunction will be enforceable or not.
Where are you coming from? I guess the rest of us should laugh at your neanderthalian jokes...
I've spent about $200 since discovering the site a few months back. That's particularly interesting given that I've probably spent a total of $200 on music *period* in the last five years. I'm now entirely a downloader when it comes to music, and I do not listen, download or accept DRM'ed music or music that's under 320k quality.
I'm not sure why so many slashdotters are proud at having been duped out of their money for pirated music. None of that $200 has gone to the artists, it's all gone to Russian criminals. And you're happy with this?
Geeze, if you're going to download pirated music, you may as well be smart and download it for free, instead of funding criminals.
Rather than shutting down AllOfMP3, the industry might want to pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of people who are actually spending on music and haven't done so in years.
See, the industry is actually only interested in people paying money for music if that money is going to the industry and the artists. Believe it or not, neither the RIAA nor the BPA was set up to safeguard the wellbeing of Russian con artists.
Kill America! Kill Capitalism! Destroy Britain! Go Russia! Go AllOfMp3.com! Go Future!
Tee hee, destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy the west!