Last updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
RECORD COMPANIES SUE MUSIC-SHARING WEBSITE
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has filed a lawsuit against Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay seeking $2.5 million (GBP1.25 million) in damages.
The suit, filed in Sweden on Tuesday (1Apr08), accuses the site of copyright infringement in relation to 24 albums - which the IFPI allegedly monitored to see how many times they were illegally downloaded in a bid to calculate damages.
The legal papers also mention nine films and four videos which were allegedly made available through The Pirate Bay.
Lars Gustafsson, head of the Swedish branch of the IFPI, insists the website's activities are extremely damaging for the music industry.
He says, "This damages (sic) now being demanded are based on the albums which the prosecutor has included in his indictment. The injury to the record companies, the artists, and the copyright holders caused by The Pirate Bay's illegal activity is many times greater."
However, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gorrfrid Warg has responded to the lawsuit with indifference, telling Swedish publication The Local, "The record companies can go screw themselves."
Warg, along with his other co-founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, also face criminal charges, filed in January (08), accusing them of being accessories to copyright infringement.
Source: WENN
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