There is a searchmachine launched by the belgian IFPI (which represents all the music lables aka "Incomptetent Firm for Pestering Internetters") which can track down 12000 napster users in a minute. They say they will sue people and take away their comp.
However the belgian minister of Justice stated that there is no alliance between the IFPI and any governmental institution, including police. Even better, he's going to look into the case and find out if what they are doing is not a violation on the privacylaw in Belgium. Like it has to be proven, of course it is, IFPI gets your IP, then your provider needs to mach that IP to your home address, bingo, violated the privacylaw.
It's all blown up, overstated, and just to scare people from using napster...
They say it's robery, well a cd costing 700 Belgian francs or 15$, now that's robery!
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There is a searchmachine launched by the belgian IFPI (which represents all the music lables aka "Incomptetent Firm for Pestering Internetters") which can track down 12000 napster users in a minute. They say they will sue people and take away their comp. However the belgian minister of Justice stated that there is no alliance between the IFPI and any governmental institution, including police. Even better, he's going to look into the case and find out if what they are doing is not a violation on the privacylaw in Belgium. Like it has to be proven, of course it is, IFPI gets your IP, then your provider needs to mach that IP to your home address, bingo, violated the privacylaw. It's all blown up, overstated, and just to scare people from using napster... They say it's robery, well a cd costing 700 Belgian francs or 15$, now that's robery!