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

[silveradept]

They might, being branches of said corporation, but even if they don't, it would still serve as the object lesson - fining those corporations beyond their ability to pay and holding them to it gives them an idea of what happens when you slap a consumer and alleged file-sharer with a fine beyond their ability to pay it. The lesson might sink in if applied repeatedly.