Music industry strikes back
posted on 08. June 2004 at 05:49 PM
In late March 2004 the German Recording Association and the German division of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) decided to initiate lawsuits against 68 P2P file sharing individuals. Today the first German KaZaA user (a 23-year-old college student) was sentenced to pay a fine of 8,000 Euro after police had searched his home and found 6,000 MP3 files on this hard drives and hundreds of CD ROMs containing ripped audio CDs.
Note also that private investigators hired by the music industry (in this case employees of proMedia GmbH, Hamburg) are reported work hand-in-hand with German authorities on several occasions in an effort to capture copyright violators.
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