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Warner, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Sued for Piracy

By - Source: Tom's Guide US

Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal are facing up to $6 billion in damages for piracy.

Sounds a bit weird, right? Record labels, the companies that constantly rally around artists, harping on about everyone working equally hard getting paid their fair share are cheating artists out of money? However, according to a TorrentFreak post, several of the biggest record labels are being sued for pirating a massive 300,000 tracks.

A group of artists in Canada have reportedly grown tired of labels using their songs without permission. According to TF, labels tend to use a lot of songs for the likes of compilation CDs without first asking the artists' and last year a group of artists filed a class-action suit against the CRIA, Canada's equivalent of the RIAA.

TorrentFreak reports that the suit is ongoing but the labels have already admitted to owing at least $50 million for infringing the rights of artists.

Read the full story here.

There are 66 Comments.
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  • 46
    XZaapryca , December 9, 2009 1:31 AM
    Hypocrisy is something we humans will never run short of.
  • 39
    kyeana , December 9, 2009 1:30 AM
    Wonderful!!
  • 38
    jacobdrj , December 9, 2009 1:29 AM
    *Jaw drops open*
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  • 38
    jacobdrj , December 9, 2009 1:29 AM
    *Jaw drops open*
  • 39
    kyeana , December 9, 2009 1:30 AM
    Wonderful!!
  • 46
    XZaapryca , December 9, 2009 1:31 AM
    Hypocrisy is something we humans will never run short of.
  • 35
    twisted politiks , December 9, 2009 1:37 AM
    Love It!
  • 36
    Kryan , December 9, 2009 1:38 AM
    @XZaapryca....

    you took the words right out of my mouth.
    sheesh...the sheer CHEEK the record labels have to then point fingers at people like that single mom who got bust a while ago for downloading ***ONE*** CD...

    please everyone buy the song Dinosaurs Must Die - NOfX
    very fitting
  • 30
    Verrin , December 9, 2009 1:41 AM
    Oh, the irony.
  • 11
    liquidblue , December 9, 2009 1:43 AM
    Get 'er done!
  • 34
    bill gates is your daddy , December 9, 2009 1:45 AM
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHhhhhhh....ohhh. I think I wet myself.
  • 18
    joshthor , December 9, 2009 1:46 AM
    hell yeah!!
  • 18
    Dax corrin , December 9, 2009 1:48 AM
    Time for these big labels to go after some more illegal downloaders so they can cover this liability...
  • 29
    anonymous@guest , December 9, 2009 1:50 AM
    Uh.no. If this were about their customers, then instead of:

    "but the labels have already admitted to owing at least $50 million for infringing the rights of artists"

    they would have said:

    "but the label thieves have already admitted to owing at least $50 million for stealing artists' work".

    It seams Joe sixpack is a "thief" that "steals" while the record companies are "labels" that "infringe".


  • 8
    bison88 , December 9, 2009 1:52 AM
    Oh well and here we all thought the Record Labels were the saviors of individuals media rights, oh how the truth hurts when you realize they are nothing more then a devil in disguise.
  • 24
    Gin Fushicho , December 9, 2009 1:55 AM
    F&%^ING PWNED! Took long enough for someone too do this.
  • 13
    snurp85 , December 9, 2009 1:58 AM
    Awesome! I wonder how this will affect the piracy suits that the labels themselves have issued.
  • 7
    omnimodis78 , December 9, 2009 2:01 AM
    jonpaul37... and this surprises you?... Next thing, we'll find out that the mood in fact is NOT made of cheese??? What is this world coming to????

    What? lol!
  • 22
    mojito_619 , December 9, 2009 2:04 AM
    Take that you Futher Muckers! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
  • 17
    zak_mckraken , December 9, 2009 2:09 AM
    Canada have Cojones!
  • 4
    Silmarunya , December 9, 2009 2:14 AM
    Excellent. Let's see... So if we can blow up the pirates and the big record labels, all will be well.
  • 14
    Parrdacc , December 9, 2009 2:19 AM
    Did Hell just freeze over?
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