Re: Re: Sonos - what's the point?

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

marcmchawi wrote:

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>  There was a story today about people having to pay compensation to
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> BPI over illegally downloaded music. The point was that these were
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> ordinary families and the downloaders were kids - not huge pirate
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> One mum had to pay =A34500 because her son had donwloaded baout
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> songs and then set them up for sharing

I think you will find its chose to pay, I am not aware of any of these
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getting to the stage where they see a court. The threat of going to court
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having to pay x0,000 per infringement, or a much smaller fee now soon
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there mind.


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