PayPal Joins London Police Effort

derGoldstein writes this excerpt from Ars Technica: "PayPal has joined a music copyright association and the City of London police department's bid to financially starve websites deemed 'illegal.' When presented with sufficient evidence of unlicensed downloading from a site, the United Kingdom's PayPal branch 'will require the retailer to submit proof of licensing for the music offered by the retailer,' said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's latest press release." The press release can be found here.

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Re:I don't get it (either)

[icebraining]

You're kidding, right? Both Rapidshare and Megaupload have been sued, and the former was ordered by a court to pay a fine.

But there's an huge difference between offering personal file hosting and selling identified music files. The latter can't allege ignorance about the contents of the file.