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October 9, 2003
Technology Briefing: Internet
NEW YORK TIMES
MAN SENTENCED IN MUSIC COPYRIGHT CASE A New York man was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison on copyright infringement charges for selling pirated compact disc compilations over the Internet, prosecutors said. Judge Reggie B. Walton of Federal District Court in Washington also said that Alvin A. Davis of Brooklyn should pay $3,329.50 in restitution and serve a year of supervised probation. He was also barred from using a computer for a year. Mr. Davis's sentence is the first for such an offense, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, which said the "piracy is especially harmful to record stores and other legitimate music retailers." The music industry, in an effort to stem more than three years of falling sales that analysts attribute to piracy and companies' failure to spur demand, has filed hundreds of lawsuits against people who have illegally distributed music files. The suits followed cases against file-sharing services like Napster. The industry is also promoting its own fee-based online services. Mr. Davis, 42, operated www.empirerecords.com, a Web site that is now defunct. The site sold more than 100 different CD and cassette compilations of rap and rhythm and blues music. He was arrested after an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent bought 209 CD's over four months. (Bloomberg News)
sucks to be him.
he was kind of asking for it though...
it's one thing to share, another thing to just plain sell.
nsap @ filesharingtalk.com
I think this guy gives the rest of us who are not into making money off p2p a bad a name.
Personally I hope he drops the soap...;)
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hahahahahahaOriginally Posted by Wolfie
nsap @ filesharingtalk.com
Damn another New Yorker, that crap is coming close to me.
Well that must of sucked, he probably thought he was making good progress too when the FBI bought 209 CD's in four months.
good for him selling cds to make a profit is wrong.
I can't believe he actually thought he'd get away with it.
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what about all those people i see on street corners saleing cd's or in flea markets.. If people sale for profit, their hurting the industry. and the ones they should go after.
6 Months ? fuck nah
Give him 2 years . it because people like him makes p2p a bad name. i burn songs for my friends, and people also but i never charged them a penny.
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