Well, Yeah, That Makes Sense...

When the music industry goes after people like this, it doesn't bother me at all:

A British court has sentenced Richard Durose to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to selling pirated music. His wife, who also pleaded guilty, was sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for two years. They will also have to pay the court costs of £14,000.

The couple had been manufacturing pirated CD-R copies of albums in MP3 format, and selling them by mail order and at computer fairs. They had been selling up to 2,000 CDs a month before they were caught and sentenced.

2000 CDs a month? Holy, damn, they must've been making a bunch of money. Even if they were only charging five pounds per (this is completely a guess), they were pulling in 10,000 pounds a month. That's serious profit off of someone else's product.

Nope, I don't have a problem with the industry taking down people like this at all.

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Posted by zombyboy at September 13, 2003 10:20 PM | TrackBack