-pops- Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 The British music industry is set to announce its first wave of legal action against internet users who download music illegally.More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3722428.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Saw this on Sky news earlier on -pops-. Did you see last night the news item regarding national newspapers giving full CD's of top artist free. They are made of compilation CD's of various artist. They for some reason don't mind doing this, say they are within the law and gave a breakdown of the cost.I should have made a note of the figures given for percentage's paid to artist, labels, wholesale and the retail outlets. I was quite surprised to see just how large a percentage the retailer gets, yet they say there is no margin for reducing the shop price. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 The British music industry is set to announce its first wave of legal action against internet users who download music illegally.More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3722428.stmIt gets back at the something for nothing culture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel=UK= Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 every1 wants sumthing for nowt........ i know i do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 every1 wants sumthing for nowt........ i know i doI'm not saying that I don't either, but some folk seem to think that it is a God given right. Try offering me a free beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluecow Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Well I'll have andsome's free beer.Hands up if you used to tape your favorite tracks off the radio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 "It wants to target a hardcore 15% responsible for 75% of all illegal filesharing on the internet."No typed letters can express how funny I find that.How can such a clueless organization ever hope to do anything about, well, anything?"Since then, it has sent hundreds of thousands of instant internet messages to desktops warning the most frequent users of file-swapping sites that they were being watched."I'd be interested to know how did they did this?Oh, and DOWNLOADING DOES NOT EQUAL UPLOADING. How many times are these terms going to be swapped around as if it doesn't matter in articles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 The illegal part is not downloading the file, it's making a copy of it and distributing it (putting it in a shared folder). It's copyright infringment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Scarecrow, that's correct in America but in England it is illegal to even have a "backup copy" :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Ash im guessing the messages would of been sent to desktop using the windows messenger service. The same way you can get the little grey text boxes of spam offering viagra etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Ash im guessing the messages would of been sent to desktop using the windows messenger service. The same way you can get the little grey text boxes of spam offering viagra etc.Or through the IM function in most P2P programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooly1 Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 I cant see the big deal in downloading music, and selling cds at car boot sales, and pubs. Just so the bands can get richer and the rest of the fatcats. It will never stop, Theres enough pervs on here to get rid first, without a people getting done for a bit of music. so what if they make some money, and them with it get less tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 If music companies hadnt shied away from digitially distributing music in the first place maybe they wouldnt be so far behind now. Its not untill they can see there loosin millions and millions of £££££s they start to take an interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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