I know users of the site who have had nasty letters from solicitors
telling them to pay £300+ for a single album they torrented, etc.
So I think users may notice a difference in that regard.
Yes these guy's are saints.
"But as they say in Britain, “where there’s muck, there’s brass”, and
that’s enough to attract more lawyers and more rightsholders to this
most profitable of honeypots."
"It has been well documented that other lawyers previously involved in
this type of work, such as ACS:Law, have been heavily reported both to
the government and to organizations such as the Solicitors Regulatory
Authority (SRA). Indeed, ACS:Law have proven record-breaking in this
respect."
http://torrentfreak.com/yet-more-lawyers-jump-on-turn-piracy-into-profit-bandwagon-100712/
This is just extortion.
But then Nick is on the side of the real crooks as the courts have
demonstrated, ever herd of Celador, well it wasn't the pirates who tried
to cheat them of 270 millions.
"This week, the big case involved a TV show, rather than a movie, with
the famed gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire suddenly becoming "Who
Wants To Hide Millions In Profits." A jury found the whole "Hollywood
Accounting" discussion preposterous and awarded Celador $270 million in
damages from Disney, after the jury believed that Disney used these
kinds of tricks to cook the books and avoid having to pay Celador over
the gameshow, as per their agreement."
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/02510310122.shtml
"So, back to our original example of the average musician only earning
$23.40 for every $1,000 sold. That money has to go back towards
"recouping" the advance, even though the label is still straight up
cashing 63% of every sale, which does not go towards making up the
advance. The math here gets ridiculous pretty quickly when you start to
think about it. These record label deals are basically out and out scams."
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml
These are the big time crooks, that Nick should be concerned about.
He even uses the slippery slope argument, on that basis I am sure he is
frightened of the dark...
As for the Artists:
"The really interesting thing is, of course, that these aren't Baen
books, they're DAW---another publisher---so it's 'name loyalty' rather
than 'brand loyalty.' I'll tell you what, I'm sold. Free works."
I've found that to be true myself; every time we make a few songs
available on my website, sales of all the CDs go up. A lot. And I don't
know about you, but as an artist with an in-print record catalogue that
dates back to 1965, I'd be thrilled to see sales on my old catalogue rise."
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Free Works !
And don't miss the Courtney Love from 2000, URL in Techdirt story, on
how an 11 million grossing band makes zero income, at least if they were
established artists they would have made a quarter of a million.
Keep Honest People Honest !
Honest People don't need to be kept honest, but they can see the law is
an ass, and choose to ignore it. Unless the BBC and the crooks get to
impose 'Technical Protection Measures' for their extortion rackets.
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