International Music Industry Amps Up Anti-P2P War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @04:27AM from the sharing-the-pain-across-the-globe dept.

newtley writes to mention a BBC article discussing a new initiative against file-sharers by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. This international version of the MPAA is breathing down the necks of 8,000 users of file-sharing software. From the article: "The new cases cover file sharers in 17 different countries who have been allegedly using sites including BitTorrent, eDonkey, SoulSeek and WinMX. For the first time legal action is being taken in Brazil, Mexico and Poland. The IFPI said the actions affect a wide-variety of people: a laboratory assistant has been charged in Finland, while a parson has been served with action in Germany."

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Wrong organizations by klingens · 2006-10-17 04:35 · Score: 4, Informative

The IFPI is the international counterpart of the RIAA not MPAA. The MPAA is movies, the RIAA is music, the IFPI is music.
Re:Canadian levies by lRem · 2006-10-17 05:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Also, good luck with suing in Poland. Sharing your music, and breaking the DRM, is perfectly legal here as long as you don't make money (or other material gains) on it.

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Re:Canadian levies by alexo · 2006-10-17 06:14 · Score: 4, Informative

Copying for personal use is exempt from copyright infringement within Canada, this is true, but this exemption does not apply if one is sharing it with others
Are you sure about that?
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No doubt about it?