Owners of a site with counterfeit music will pay $ 950 thousand dollars to copyright holders



    No, it was not a fan site with Beatles music - the owners of the site earned by selling songs at 25 cents, and had no right to it. It is clear that visitors did not know about this, therefore the trickle of 25-centoviks did not dry out. But at one moment, not very favorable for the administration of the mentioned site, the copyright holders came across a site and decided to punish its owners. A lawsuit was filed in court, and the judge, having examined all aspects of the case, decided to impose a fine of $ 950 thousand on the creators of the BlueBeat.com website. The money confiscated from the grief sellers will go to the copyright holders.

    It is worth noting that this site does not carry out illegal activities now. But in 2009, Media Rights Technologies, the owner of this site, sold music not only to the Beatles, but also to Radiohead, Coldplay, Bonnie Raitt and other groups. By the way, the site was quite popular, since during the existence of the site more than 67 thousand compositions of The Beatles alone were sold. By the way, at that time The Beatles music was not on iTunes.

    The court has been reviewing the case of the company and its website since 2009, and only now has the court ordered the payment of a huge fine. Interestingly, the owners of the site tried to justify themselves by the fact that they did not sell ordinary musical compositions, but music rewritten by means of “psycho-acoustic simulation”, and therefore all music files sold by the service did not belong to the copyright holders. In general, the court recognized the weight of this nonsense as unscientific, and sentenced him.

    As for the site, its owners are trying to negotiate with the copyright holders, and the agreement should be quite ambitious - about 800 thousand entries appear in the case. By the way, Media Rights Technologies believes that now it has the right to sell music, since all the fines have been paid, and the agreement with the copyright holders seems to be almost reached.

    Apparently, the guys made good money on counterfeit music, since Media Rights Technologies, having paid almost a million dollars, continues to work.

    Via Yahoo

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