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p2p news / p2pnet: This March the CDT (Center for Democracy and Technology) internet civil liberties group filed a federal deceptive-advertising complaint with the FTC against Mp3DownloadCity.com and MyMusicInc.com, both of which claimed to offer “100 percent legal” downloads.
Now, “A U.S. District Court judge has halted the deceptive ads of a Web operation that claimed that membership in MP3DownloadCity.com would allow users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs to transfer copyrighted materials without violating the law,” says an FTC statement.
“The FTC will seek a permanent bar on the deceptive claims, redress for consumers, and a requirement that the defendant notify consumers who signed up for membership that the programs he promotes to share copyrighted files may subject them to civil or criminal liability.”
The defendant is Cashier Myricks Jr, “doing business as MP3downloadcity.com, based in Los Angeles, California,” says the FTC.
Mp3DownloadCity.com and MyMusicInc.com promised, ” legal downloads of files such as movies still in theaters, each charge customers about US$25 for a subscription,” said the CDT in March, going on, “The sites then direct users to P-to-P networks using popular, freely available P-to-P software, such as Kazaa and LimeWire, and offer instructions on how to use the software.”
Nor is the risk of consumer confusion, “merely speculative,” said the organization’s Federal Trade Commission filing.
“Several users that were sued by record companies for illegal filesharing said they mistakenly believed that because they had paid money for filesharing software, they were entitled to download popular music legally.”
No mention of MyMusicInc.com was made in the FTC press release, and Mp3DownloadCity.com was still running and making promises at 1:24 pm Pacific when we went over for a look.
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FTC statement - FTC Clamps down on File-sharing Service Site, October 19, 2005
October 19th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
The retards that sign up for these “services” deserved to be scammed. This guy shouldn’t be to blame for taking advantage of the stupid.
October 19th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Yeah…. before ever being allowed on (or to own) a computer, people should have to take an IQ test to make sure that they are at least as smart as a doorknob.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
I was thinking about a computer license (pun intended…) like a driving license… Rule #1 : don’t use Windows if you don’t have an IQ of 140 and a degree in CS
October 20th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Those people may have been stupid. Anyways, I don’t think that take advantage of stupids be a respectable way of living. Stupid are not guilty to be stupid. A good person should teach stupids to be more clever, but scamming is not a good teaching method at all: it’s proper of rat-people.