Comments on: EMI takes the plunge http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/04/23/emi-takes-the-plunge/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Jack http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/04/23/emi-takes-the-plunge/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:58:41 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=364#comment-555 Related: Australians face jail for a bit of filesharing.

“Police said the alleged piracy concerned music, album covers and music videos from Universal Music, Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Festival Mushroom Records. If found guilty of breaching copyright under the Copyright Act 1968, they would face up to five years in jail or a $60,000 fine”

]]> By: Jack http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/04/23/emi-takes-the-plunge/comment-page-1/#comment-554 Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:00:07 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=364#comment-554 I’m starting to look at this in the same way as donationware/shareware/independently produced software - I religously pay for software of that type, and if independent record companies (the few that are left) or producers want to charge me for downloads, that’s fine by me. Whatever, you’re right - the only way this can work for the majors is by stamping out all the P2P networks, IRC, etc., which is impossible…

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