Warner, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Sued for Piracy
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.
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*Jaw drops open*
Wonderful!!
Hypocrisy is something we humans will never run short of.
Love It!
@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
... 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????
Oh, the irony.
Get 'er done!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHhhhhhh....ohhh. I think I wet myself.
hell yeah!!
Time for these big labels to go after some more illegal downloaders so they can cover this liability...
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".
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.
F&%^ING PWNED! Took long enough for someone too do this.
Awesome! I wonder how this will affect the piracy suits that the labels themselves have issued.
... 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!
Take that you Futher Muckers! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Canada have Cojones!
Excellent. Let's see... So if we can blow up the pirates and the big record labels, all will be well.
Did Hell just freeze over?
The big companies like the screw over those working for them, that's nothing new at all...
$50 million... that's like 10 tracks right?
300k tracks at 80k per track (what the judge ruled that the single mom, Jammie Thomas-Rasset) is 24 Billion. I think that's only fair.
Exactly. 300,000 songs? According to my math based on settlements they've gotten, that would be a 2.25 Trillion Dollar payout.... PWNED!!!
And remember, its not the number of tracks they stole, but the number of times they distributed each track. And since these were sold on physical CDs, that should be easy to count.
I wonder if the CRIA will try to argue fair-use? I wonder if the artists are distrubuting fake compilation CDs that are really empty or full of garbage data, in an effort to disrupt the wide-spread and illegal distribution the labels are undertaking (similar to seeding garbage packets into a BitTorrent stream). I wonder if they are performing sit-in DDOS attacks against stores that refuse to let them sell the garbage discs on their shelves (similar to how the RIAA would DDOS legitimate BitTorrent services that blocked their connections).
Will we see record label execs in commercials during the upcoming Super Bowl talking about how they used to steal music, but now one in every 5 Pepsi bottles gives them a chance to legally distribute one song on a compilation CD?
Misplaced a decimal. Still, I like the thought of hitting them for billions
The big companies like the screw over those working for them, that's nothing new at all...
Not all companies screw their workers. Many companies actually comply with basic ethics standards. Most do actually. It's the competitive job markets that have to make their jobs attractive in order to get the best talent. If you work McDonalds or WalMart at 45, you're asking for it though because in the future, your job will be done by robots (even Roombas can do half of it).
All immature spastic ROFLMOAing aside, I have to admit that I am VERY interested to see what their arguments are about the actual dollar value of each track.
Has the CRIA been as over the top as the RIAA with their demands or is this not going to be as much of a spectacle as it would if this was in the US against the RIAA?
So many trite but apt expressions, including:
1. What goes around comes around.
2. If the shoe fits, wear it.
3. You made your bed, now sleep in it.
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bunch of butt munches. unbelieveable