Canada's 4 biggest music labels fined $50mil

[thewayne]

"The 2008 class action alleges that the record companies “exploited” music owners by reproducing and selling in excess of 300,000 song titles without securing licenses from the copyright owners and/or without paying the associated royalty payments."

There's nothing like stealing directly from your clients.

http://www.canoe.com/cgi-bin/imprimer.cgi?langue=A&id=818616

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That would indeed be a thing of beauty, but it ain't gonna happen. The ??AA have too much leverage in the political process to receive much more than a slap on the wrist, look at how many former ??AA attorneys are now in Obama's justice department, much less the recently approved Comcast/NBC merger.

Money talks, bullshit walks. We are no longer a republic or democracy, we're now a corporatocracy.

[silveradept]

This we know. But it would be nice that if a judge or jury, having decided there was a violation there, lit into them with a fine that was just this side of "going to be appealed for outrageousness" instead of "*slap* Don't do that again in such a way that we conclude it's wrong."