OiNK trial farce ends. Alan Ellis cleared.
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- OiNK trial farce begins, p2pnet posted on January 6.
Now, OiNK trial farce ends, we can say, with OiNK creator Alan Ellis (right) a free man having been found innocent of conspiracy to defraud the corporate music industry.
Ellis, 26, had around $300,000 in his Paypal account when UK police staged a dramatic raid on his house in 2007.
He was running a music site with some 200,000 site members. So the money must have belonged to the labels. Right? Goes without saying.
It was “invite-only, with users having to pay a donation in order to be able to ask their friends to join,” says the Guardian.
“This is a hugely disappointing verdict,” it has Geoff Taylor, mouthperson for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s, BPI (British Phornographic Industry), saying.
But why should he worry?
The two-year investigation into Ellis covered the Netherlands and Britain. But it didn’t cost the labels a penny.
Instead, local taxpayers footed the bill for police and other agencies involved.
They’re also paying through the nose for the entertainment cartel’s Three Strikes debate being staged (word used advisedly) in Britain and other countries around the world.
Meanwhile, in the US the labels are facing price fixing charges.
Again.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – OiNK trial farce begins, January 6, 2010
Guardian – Jury clears British ‘Pirate Bay’ operator of fraud charge, January 15, 2010
price fixing charges – Big Music in price fixing lawsuit. Again., January 14, 2010
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January 15th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
The corporate parasites could not corrupt the judge this time Hum?
I am sure these piece of shit are going to appeal and try again.
Please! somebody! Eradicate all these corporation of parasites Please Now!
By the way did you saw this piece of propaganda from the BBC?
If they call that news I call this noise!
Meanwhile Wer must expend to boycott:
NO CD, NO DOWLOAD, NO I-TUNE, NO DVD AND NO MOVIE THEATER!
We must remove all the sources of revenue to these parasites until they all end up in the street!
January 15th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
@RW
There is no appeal under the UK law. There could however be a civil suit although after the black eye that has just been dealt this is unlikely!
Congrats Alan
January 16th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Juries in the UK appear to be much more educated than the ones in the US.
Big outbreak of common sense for once. Of course the assholes will now just use this case as an excuse for more draconian copyright laws.
January 17th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
The homepage of The Pirate Bay is congratulating Alan on his win.
“Congrats, OiNK. Pigs Do Fly.”
January 17th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
^^
WOW!
Yawwwwn
January 19th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
“Meanwhile Wer must expend to boycott: NO CD, NO DOWLOAD, NO I-TUNE, NO DVD AND NO MOVIE THEATER!”
That means NO corporate product (except the stuff pirates steal off the file sharing networks).
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:31 am
Time for Alan Ellis to go after IFPI and BPI for the surveillance they did on him in 2007. Data protection laws mean he can get everything that IFPI and BPI have on their databases about him, even the deleted stuff. John Kennedy might have a lot to explain as there are very strict rules about spying on people in their private premises.