Swiss teen fined for downloads
p2pnet news view | Music:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) is endorsing iTunes.
But this Big Music support for an Apple product will come as no surprise to the P2P community.
A group of teenagers were falsely accused by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA of being criminals in front of hundreds of millions of people in a warped iPod / RIAA / Pepsi commercial broadcast to hundreds of millions of people during the 2004 Superbowl.
Now a Swiss teenager faces a 14 days in jail if she doesn’t come up with a court-imposed penalty of 400 Swiss Francs (almost $400 Canadian) for allegedly downloading copyrighted movie and music files.
She was also ordered to pay a statutory 900 sf and 250 sf in costs.
Still, it’s better than almost $2 million or $675,000.
According to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), she “distributed 4,253 copyright infringing music and film files on the eMule and Bearshare peer-to-peer networks”.
The 18-year-old had refused the IFPI’s offer to ’settle’ out of court.
“Legal sites are run by reputable vendors who fully disclose their identity, such as Ex Libris, iTunes or Musicload,” says the IFPI.
Now you know.
..… and identi.ca
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
falsely accused – Apple, Pepsi and the RIAA SuperBowl scandal, July 5, 2009
$2 million – Jamie Thomas-Rasset’s $1.92 million playlist, June 19, 2009
$675,000 – DoJ opposes Tenenbaum bid for new trial, January 20, 2010
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January 20th, 2010 at 10:29 am
I wouldn’t pay anything and take the jail sentence. If people are going to prison for this stuff, maybe politicians will start defending their citizens.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:14 am
It’s pretty obvious that the legal system is FUBAR when people get lighter sentences for drunk driving than they do for filesharing.
January 20th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
The slogan on the logo should be:
“We won’t innovate, so we sue!”
January 20th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
“Legal sites are run by reputable vendors”
Apple is a reputable vendor? It is rather a new
MicrosoftGoogle!January 20th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
I would refuse to pay the fine as well.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
I would put this on my Resume: 14 days in jail for defending freedom against the corporations of parasites!
It will get me hired faster since real businesses need bold people with balls unlike the corporations of entertainment parasites.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:23 am
See, the more I see news like this, the more I feel it’s my duty to keep downloading.
I’d hate the music industry to think their Draconian ways were making people stop.