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Title: Legal fight hits 'music pirates'
Post by: Cyberus on November 15, 2005, 08:49:30 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4438324.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4438324.stm)

Sorry to 'crapflood' with mere links...
but its what I do best ;-)


Now where was that hulkmania/roy walker site I was going to link....

Title: Re: Legal fight hits 'music pirates'
Post by: on November 15, 2005, 09:14:48 PM

So what would happen to people like me who don't download "music" that is on the dire labels these {bleep}s claim to represent?

Would I still get prosecuted and made to pay a fine to these tossers for downloading other music that is not on sale anywere, and some that has never been onsale?

Title: Re: Legal fight hits 'music pirates'
Post by: Vincent on November 15, 2005, 09:37:55 PM

I doubt it.  It's not their position to try and sue you for other people's stuff.

You'd probably be ok with bootlegs (80/90s defenition of bootlegs) though.

If you download music that's not been through the RIAA then you could be ok, they don't have as much power behind them as the RIAA do and it only seems to be the RIAA that's really going after the downloaders.