French Big Music victim
p2pnet.net News:- In America, the names of men, women and children victimized by Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) under their bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign are now common place.
But that’s not the case in France. .
There, a primary school teacher is among thise being persecuted by the members of the Big Four Organized Music cartel.
She was fined nearly e3,500 (about $4,655 today) for downloading music, using a p2p application, says Paris Link.
Her name is Anne-Sophie Mainneméa. And so far she’s, "the only person arrested for illegal downloads to come out from underneath the cloak of anonymity."
Police found more than 1,600 mp3s on her computer at her home near Rennes, Brittany, and, "I want to be an example – the model of what you should not do, not a martyr for the record industry," the story has her saying.
Now, her case has become a major issue in France, says the post, going on:
"At least 50 others were caught in a police operation against illegal downloading. Anne-Sophie, however, was the only person who wished her name to be made public.
Her lawyer, Maître Lamon, says she had no idea the files she was downloading were being shared, says Paris Link. It doesn’t say whether or not she was using Kazaa, the Sharman Networks p2p aplication which features promininently in many, if not most, US cases,
"It is not because you download music that you do not buy it", argued Anne-Sophie through her lawyer, says the story.
"Miss Lainnemé, police discovered, had an extensive CD collection, and attended many concerts – principally on the basis of the music she had discovered through downloading.’
Her e1,200 (about $1,595, today) fine was suspended, but she’s been ordered to pay e2,225 (about $2,959, today) in damages, "to the French authorities that manage royalties for recording artists," adds Paris Link.
Also See:
Paris Link – Anne-Sophie Lainnemé Fined For Downloading, November 30, 2006
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