Thread: UK music downloader pays £2,500 after being caught.
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Old 09-06-2005, 12:56   #11
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Re: UK music downloader pays £2,500 after being caught.
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Originally Posted by Scarlett

I agree that its Illegal acording to the laws that the music companies spent a fair wack of the profits from these high priced CD's on lobbying the governments to impliment and as a result the music comapnies are allowed to sepnd even more of the profits from these high priced CD's on suing you for any money you haven't spent with them.
Two points..

1) The copyright laws (admittedly not the DMCA which I don't think applies in this country) have been around a lot longer than CDs...

2) IIRC The loser of a case pays the fees?
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