[pp.int.general] Music industry hit with $60 billion copyright infringement lawsuit

[Edison Carter]

"exaggerated headlines gets people’s attention; so why not just make numbers
up? " - Barry Sookman

Ahh, so that's where those ridiculous claims of 'losses' come from!


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:14 +0000, Philip Hunt wrote:
> > 2009/12/8 Edison Carter <the.real.edison.carter at gmail.com>:
> > > Interesting though; if they do get the full fine can the CRIA then
> claim
> > > that they "lost $6bn due to piracy" ?
> > >
> > > Well, technically it would be true...
>
> I emailed several people for comment on this. From the 'industry' side I
> was referred to this:
>
>
> http://www.barrysookman.com/2009/12/08/geist-inflates-pending-lists-claim-to-vilify-record-labels/
>
> The BIO on his sight (misspelt deliberately; that green is offensive)
> might be worth Mr Stallman's ire...
>
> http://www.barrysookman.com/about/
>
> And Mr Sookman? For the five plus years Google News has been running,
> there is one entry; a recent one.
>
>
>
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