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Attorneys in Germany are refusing
to investigate against filesharers unless no financial
gains or massive amounts are involved. They claim, that
investigation costs should not get covered by taxpayers.
Worldwide music industry lawyers
are trying hard to impose legal threats on Internet
providers to cut off users who conduct filesharing.
Japan and France have already modified their laws and
the EU is expected to follow.
The UK Band Radiohead has allowed
their fans to decide about the price that they want
to pay for downloading their new album. So far 2/3 have
been paying.
In Minnesota Jammie Thomas had been sentenced to a
$ 220.000 compensation for the
illegal download of 1.700 songs.
Prince has released 3 million
copies of his new album in the UK as a free supplement
with the Sunday Mail.
Many websites offer now legal music and movie download
services with millions of files. Here are some
big sites
Microsoft is trying to challenge
Itunes with a new download service.
Napster prides 500.000 subscribers
and a new streaming video service is expected to attract
more visitors.
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