Yup. Breaking the copyright law is punishable with fines and imprisonment for up to 2 years. No one has gotten more than fines though, in the scale of a couple of hundred $ (yet).
Actually, it is that part you mentioned along with this:
Punishment as provided for an act in this Code shall be imposed not
only on the person who committed the act but also on anyone who
furthered it by advice or deed. The same shall also apply to any
other act punishable with imprisonment under another Law or
statutory instrument. And of course, the Copyright law under which eventual crimes would be committed by a third party. In the evidence there is logs and testimonies of people working for the Anti Piracy Bureau, where they have connected to torrents using the tracker in order to download the content and confirm that it is a full, working replicated copy of the material. There is no case against the people who have actually been connected to the swarm (not yet at least), but they believe that it is enough to prove that the tracker can be used as a utility for aiding in the crime.
So, what they are saying are that they want to get paid for music already paid for (by the radio station), because someone records it and listens to it later? How is that different from getting paid for music already paid for (by buying an album) and listening to it later? Of course, that would be the next logical step for them to take. Have everybody insert an implant which will register every time you hear a song, and charge you for it.
The way the music industry is acting nowadays, it's not strange that people don't like them.
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Yup. Breaking the copyright law is punishable with fines and imprisonment for up to 2 years. No one has gotten more than fines though, in the scale of a couple of hundred $ (yet).
I knew Diana Ross was big, but I really didn't know she was that big. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes
So, what they are saying are that they want to get paid for music already paid for (by the radio station), because someone records it and listens to it later? How is that different from getting paid for music already paid for (by buying an album) and listening to it later? Of course, that would be the next logical step for them to take. Have everybody insert an implant which will register every time you hear a song, and charge you for it. The way the music industry is acting nowadays, it's not strange that people don't like them.