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Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist

Posted by timothy on from the what-did-you-expect? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Not even a week has gone by since Torrents Time appeared on the scene, and the site has already been served with a cease-and-desist letter. Anti-piracy group BREIN, based in the Netherlands, has deemed the streaming tool an "illegal application" and demands the administrators "cease and desist the distribution of Torrents Time immediately."

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  1. Pigs by fnj · · Score: 2, Informative

    The PEOPLE DEMAND that BREIN die a horrible death.

  2. BREIN are complicit by wshs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Let's not forget that BREIN pirated music for use in commercials. Pot, kettle.

    1. Re: BREIN are complicit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yip, by law, BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN is the only organisation that is allowed to collect royalty payments for music as a third party.
      By law, by default all music royalties are collected by BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN, if you do not register at BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN then the music royalties they collect will go to their own funds.

      You can opt out of BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN by stating at the copyright line that royalties are managed by yourself (you are not allowed to use another organisation to collect royalties).

      If you play your own music for a group of people and you didn't opt out, you will have to pay BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN royalties, musicians have been caught playing their own music and not handing of royalties to BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN, even though they where not registered at BUMA/STEMRA/BREIN, and so they had to pay fines on top of the royalties.