A group of Finnish record labels are attempting to get the Pirate Bay BitTorrent website blocked in the country.
The group has filed a petition in court to block access to the controversial BitTorrent tracker, accusing it of providing copyrighted music, movies and other material to Finnish users.
"The development of a legal online market is impossible in Finland if illegal services ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:"The development of a legal online market is impossible in Finland if illegal services like The Pirate Bay are freely allowed to continue their operations," said Lauri Rechardt, of the Finnish IFPI branch.
Of course, what she actually meant was, "Overcharging for poorly made MP3s is slightly more difficult if people have a completely free alternative".
Quote:"The development of a legal online market is impossible in Finland if illegal services like The Pirate Bay are freely allowed to continue their operations," said Lauri Rechardt, of the Finnish IFPI branch.
Of course, what she actually meant was, "Overcharging for poorly made MP3s is slightly more difficult if people have a completely free alternative".
Well these are the record companies in that country and with english being a 2nd class language then the music sector is going to be smaller and thus if they do something online retailing of those songs and there's a freebie version well it's going to cut into the money making of the music sector.
If it's cut into too much, they drop people. dropped people, means less music. no music, means nothing to buy anyway.
