Jorge
April 2nd, 2008, 01:40 PM
Amount based on the number of albums included in a Swedish prosecutor's case against the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site back in January of this year.
Earlier this year Swedish public prosecutor Hakan Roswall charged The Pirate Bay with being an accessory and conspiracy to break that country's copyright law, which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. It was in that indictment that specific instances related to the charges were spelled out, in particular those of music albums made available on the site without permission of the copyright holder.
Pirated album details in hand, the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, has now decided to seek compensation for their alleged lost sales in Sweden caused by The Pirate Bay in the country's case against them.
"The damage to the record labels, artists and originators, caused by The Pirate Bay's illegal activity is several times bigger," said the head of IFPI in Sweden, Lars Gustafsson.
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Read Full Article Here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zeropaid/~3/262743023/IFPI+Demands+%242.56+Million+USD+from+The+Pirate+B ay)
Earlier this year Swedish public prosecutor Hakan Roswall charged The Pirate Bay with being an accessory and conspiracy to break that country's copyright law, which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. It was in that indictment that specific instances related to the charges were spelled out, in particular those of music albums made available on the site without permission of the copyright holder.
Pirated album details in hand, the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, has now decided to seek compensation for their alleged lost sales in Sweden caused by The Pirate Bay in the country's case against them.
"The damage to the record labels, artists and originators, caused by The Pirate Bay's illegal activity is several times bigger," said the head of IFPI in Sweden, Lars Gustafsson.
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/zeropaid?a=sluMnr"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/zeropaid?i=sluMnr" border="0"></img></a></p>
Read Full Article Here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zeropaid/~3/262743023/IFPI+Demands+%242.56+Million+USD+from+The+Pirate+B ay)