The Big Four record label cartel has gone after Shareconnector, a p2p site in The Netherlands. Shareconnector isn’t caving in, though. Instead, it’s taking Big Music on in what could be a milestone battle.
Usually, when this happens, the site involved folds. Sometimes it re-surfaces somewhere else, sometimers it doesn’t.
This time, however, Big Music has a fight on its hands.
On August 26 BREIN, Holland’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), blasted Shareconnector with a C & D notice.
BREIN is short for ‘Protection Rights Entertainment Industry Netherlands’ and its usual business is trying to nail the real criminals – the hard-core gangs and loners dealing in counterfeit software, CDs and movies. And more power to it in this kind of enforcement activity.
Read the full story at p2pNet.
