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Prince And Village People To Sue Swedish Music Site

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February 18, 2008 by Jason Gregory
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Prince and the Village People are to sue representatives of a Swedish download site after it emerged that their songs were available for users to download without consent.

They claim that the owners of Pirate Bay, which is already facing legal action from a British law firm, had not been granted permission to use their music.

Lawyer Lars Sandberg, who has been hired on behalf of the musicians, said it had not yet been decided whom the legal action would be directed against.

He added, however, that it would likely be the same four individuals, believed to be the websites founders, who have already been charged over their connections to the company, reports AFP.

The legal action is the latest in a growing assault by authorities to clamp down on the illegal downloading of music as CD sales continue to fall.
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  • No Comment, if you are good in music, see how Maddona earn millions from concerts, attends etc :) You can not be payed full life time for one time work. As engineers for example ... :) Real patent is different think, it’s a long term worm, spending billions innovated something new, really new (today there is a lot of ”modern easy patent”, which just sue people and companies to thief their money, the some way as as RIAA and MPAA :( )

    ~ by Mike 2/18/2008 Report

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  • When these big corporations will understand that Pirate Bay (among others) do not store a single bit of copyright data on their servers!! Evolve or extinct!

    ~ by Totoro 2/18/2008 Report

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