Before you go too wide with this, it turns out Michael Geist was a little hasty with his estimate and the total is a mere $6 billion, not the $60 billion he originally calculated.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Philip Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cabalamat@googlemail.com">cabalamat@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The music industry has been hit with $60 billion copyright<br>
infringement lawsuit. Apparaently they've been infringing musicians<br>
copyrights for decades:<br>
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<a href="http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/dec/7/music-industry-faces-60-billion-copyright-infringe/" target="_blank">http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/dec/7/music-industry-faces-60-billion-copyright-infringe/</a><br>
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May I suggest people republish this as widely as possible.<br>
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Philip Hunt, <<a href="mailto:cabalamat@googlemail.com">cabalamat@googlemail.com</a>><br>
Campaigns Officer, Pirate Party UK<br>
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