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Woman fined millions for music file-sharing in US

Mother of four handed $1.9 million (£1.2 million) fine

Fri 19 Jun, 2009

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Instead of chasing the spectre of piracy, industry groups like the RIAA and BPI and their ilk need to take their well-coiffed, over-paid heads out of their arses and work out ways to engage consumers. They're making baby steps with Spotify, allowing folks like iTunes to remove DRM and so forth, but those efforts are preaching to the choir. Alienating more fringe music listeners with legal action is only going to exacerbate the dire situation.

Fri 19 Jun, 2009

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