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Online music fraud 'gang' arrested

article published on 12 June, 2009

Metropolitan Police and the FBI have announced today the arrest of 10 members of what are being called an online music fraud "gang" accused of downloading their own uploaded music thousands of times using stolen credit cards to reap royalty payments. The songs, which were uploaded and available for sale on Amazon and iTunes, were downloaded over 700,000 times using 1500 different stolen ... [ read the full article ]

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chubbyInc
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_ 		13. June 2009 @ 23:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
For a moment it was a brilliant idea, then when authorities checked the purchase history on the stolen cards and found that the same song was purchased 1000s of time they figured something was amiss.
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JOHNSTARR
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_ 		14. June 2009 @ 03:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Was the song any good :) Actually I'm curious how ---->THEY<---- (not looking for a debate on how easy it is) obtained the 1500 credit cards.
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Serialluv
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_ 		14. June 2009 @ 18:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by JOHNSTARR:
 Was the song any good :) Actually I'm curious how ---->THEY<---- (not looking for a debate on how easy it is) obtained the 1500 credit cards.
It's very easy if you know how ;) I'm waiting to see how much they try and charge them with fraud for though over 300k in royalties that's going to be blown up into stupid billions of dollars in infringements etc.

Im in no way condoning(sp?) the actions of these people though. Just interested in how this will be tried and under what copyright charges not just fraud charges.
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