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UK Police and PRS Shut Down Karaoke Torrent Site
An anonymous reader writes with this news from Torrent Freak, from which he quotes: The City of London's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit and copyright and royalty group PRS for Music have teamed up for what appears to be a first-of-its-kind action. Arresting a 46-year-old man, this week police shut down one of the Internet's few karaoke-focused BitTorrent trackers. While at some stages wildly popular in the East, to most in the West a night at a karaoke bar is probably more closely associated with too many beers and individuals belting out classics wearing the aural equivalent of beer goggles. The pastime is considered by some as a bit of a joke but karaoke is big business. According to the people behind the web-based Playstation software SingOn, the global karaoke market could be worth as much as $10 billion.
takes agents off of less important subjects like preventing the next bus bombing to arrest despicable criminals who share unlicensed lyrics!
What's next? Some razzias to throw grannies in jail, who 'illegally' use Disney figures on their embroidering machines for the little ones?
City of London Police are basically a private, corporate police unit. The City of London is strange place, where corporations have the majority of votes in elections. The police basically work for corporate interests, but have all the powers of a normal police force. They abuse this by putting pressure on people to stop doing perfectly legal, lawful activities that the corporations dislike.
It's disgusting and an affront to democracy and justice.
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