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Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and pay an "unlimited" fine
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[quote:Captain Spaulding 10648098:MV8xNzg0ODE3XzI5NjU1MTA4X0E4NEM1ODA0] [quote:Judethz:MV8xNzg0ODE3XzI5NjU0ODM2X0QzQjQ3QTJB] :blinker: Ha for the good ole' days. Revox 7.5" reel to reel, Quad amp and Studio Monitors. Never any problems then. [/quote] Ah Judethz a girl after my own heart. I still own a Revox pre amp, Macintosh tube amp and Klipsch handmade La Scala's. NOTHING digital can give the same sound and I've been offered a small fortune for the tube amp. But I own a pair of smaller Klipsch and a Crown digital amp for movies on my "flatscreen". Can't live totally in the past. There's quite a few artists that NEED to get paid for their work or they wouldn't have the funds to create for us all to enjoy. we'd be stuck with, like "the old days" of only hearing whatever the unimaginative record industry execs want us to buy. Dweezil Zappa is a great example. His Dad stood his ground against Warner Brothers and produced the work HE wanted to produce without the imagination slaughtering pop music industry execs. It was a fight, but he believed in his creativity as a marketable commodity and stuck to his guns and because people didn't mind paying for genius and hard work he created and empire. So I've never minded supporting artists like him, or them. [/quote]
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The 70,000 daily visitors to popular music site RnBXclusive.com were met with a purposely terrifying message on Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) took the site down, arrested its operator, and threw up a splash page that warned downloaders of "up to 10 years imprisonment." Thought statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement in the US were ludicrous? SOCA warns that downloaders from the site could face an "unlimited fine under UK law."
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The US laws don't sound so bad compared to this..
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