The Music Industry

and the Rattling Saber

Quite a few of the news channels having been running this story, I just thought that it might be a relevant to some of our visitors, I am assuming of course that the majority of people who visit here , will also use p2p, ( huge assumption I know and sorry if it doesn't apply).

It would be nice to think that the poor souls who will get prosecuted for this are not indeed poor souls, but organized crime and have made a huge profit out of the downloads, and it will finance the fines,(doubt it though thats too hard). I personally sympathize with the industry and yes they should chase all those who are defrauding and

profiteering by selling fake Cd's etc. but to hassle to ordinary Joe who just downloads and listens from his PC or mp3 player, then sorry man you well out of order. If you cannot distinguish between the organized pirate industry and the guy in the street then sorry your on your own.

Thats the offiicial line of wannabegeek if you dont agree then I suggest you visit some rather more conservative site, but thanks anyway.

Thousands of file sharers from almost 20 nations were targeted in the latest round of lawsuits

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade group which represents the interests of record companies worldwide, has filed lawsuits against 8,000 alleged file sharers from 17 countries. First time lawsuits were also filed in Brazil, Mexico and Poland. More than 1 billion music tracks were illegally acquired in Brazil, according to the IFPI. IFPI figures also claim that music sales in Brazil have been cut in half since 2000, when file sharing began to take off in the nation. The IFPI further claims that more than 20 billion songs were illegally downloaded across the world last year.

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Along with Poland, Brazil and Mexico, Argentina, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore and Switzerland were also targeted by the latest round of lawsuits. The alleged file sharers were using eDonkey, BitTorrent, DirectConnect, Gnutella, Limewire, WinMX or SoulSeek to acquire files. Because all of the 17 locations have legitimate access to legal download services, “there is no excuse” for the file sharing, according to IFPI chairman John Kennedy.

The IFPI says that it is making consistent progress on the war against file sharing. Out of the 2,300 previously settled cases, the settlement was around $3,030.

Source DailyTech