Rusti
08-12-2009, 18:38
Record companies are apparently the biggest pirates of them all...:eek:
Found on TorrentFreak.com (http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-face-60-billion-damages-for-pirating-artists-091207/)...
While the major record labels were dragging file-sharers and BitTorrent sites to court for copyright infringement, they were themselves being sued by a conglomerate of artists for exactly the same offenses. Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal face up to $60 billion in damages for pirating a massive 300,000 tracks.
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The labels have made a habit of using songs from a wide variety of artists for compilation CDs without securing the rights. They simply use the recording and make note of it on “pending list” so they can deal with it later. This has been going on since the 1980s and since then the list of unpaid tracks (or copyright infringements) has grown to 300,000.
One would hope anyone being sued by these companies has pointed their legal teams at this information and suggested it was hypocritical for a company engaging in such practises to be suing someone for a similar thing...
And at the very least, most music pirates don't do it to make money. Can't really say the same about the record companies now can we...
Found on TorrentFreak.com (http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-face-60-billion-damages-for-pirating-artists-091207/)...
While the major record labels were dragging file-sharers and BitTorrent sites to court for copyright infringement, they were themselves being sued by a conglomerate of artists for exactly the same offenses. Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal face up to $60 billion in damages for pirating a massive 300,000 tracks.
(...)
The labels have made a habit of using songs from a wide variety of artists for compilation CDs without securing the rights. They simply use the recording and make note of it on “pending list” so they can deal with it later. This has been going on since the 1980s and since then the list of unpaid tracks (or copyright infringements) has grown to 300,000.
One would hope anyone being sued by these companies has pointed their legal teams at this information and suggested it was hypocritical for a company engaging in such practises to be suing someone for a similar thing...
And at the very least, most music pirates don't do it to make money. Can't really say the same about the record companies now can we...