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Reuters reports, that on Friday 27th January 2006, the record industry won a historic court case against 2 individuals who were "caught" swapping music illegally over the internet, which in turn forced them to pay over thousands of pounds in fines.
"In the first case of its kind in Britain, London's High Court ruled in separate judgements that the two men were liable for illegal internet distribution of music, the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) said"
One man was forced to pay 5,000 pounds outright, and faces other legal costs of 13,500 pounds, and a further undecided fine for damages.
The other man was ordered to pay 1,500 pounds and damages.
"Until now the BPI has reached out-of-court settlements with individuals it has traced uploading larges amounts of music over so-called peer-to-peer networks, which distribute data between users instead of relying on a central server"
"The music industry estimates there are 900 million unauthorised music files are on the Internet"***
Suffice to say more countries are taking action against downloading of this type.
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***I estimate that half of those belong to Celeborn.
P.P.S If there are any employees of BPI reading this, that last comment was a joke and Supreme Councilor Celeborn does not condone any piracy in any form. Thank you. |
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