AllofMP3.com owners want to punish $ 1.65 trillion
The amount of compensation required by global record majors from the owner of AllofMP3.com was $ 1.65 trillion, reports the newspaper Vedomosti .
The Russian company Mediaservices is accused of copyright infringement of companies such as EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music. "The defendant distributes millions of copies of musical works, the copyrights to which belong to the plaintiffs, without paying a penny," said the lawsuit. Record companies also accuse Mediaservices of unfair competition: “The actions of the defendant prevent the plaintiffs from distributing their products through legal Internet services such as iTunes.”
Considering the number of times Americans downloaded files from AllofMP3.com from June to October 2006 (it turned out that 11 million times), the plaintiffs decided to collect maximum compensation from Mediaservices for each copyright infringement case. “According to Art. 504 of the American copyright law, the maximum compensation is $ 150,000, the source writes. “Based on these figures, we can talk about $ 1.65 trillion.”
The Russian company Mediaservices is accused of copyright infringement of companies such as EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music. "The defendant distributes millions of copies of musical works, the copyrights to which belong to the plaintiffs, without paying a penny," said the lawsuit. Record companies also accuse Mediaservices of unfair competition: “The actions of the defendant prevent the plaintiffs from distributing their products through legal Internet services such as iTunes.”
Considering the number of times Americans downloaded files from AllofMP3.com from June to October 2006 (it turned out that 11 million times), the plaintiffs decided to collect maximum compensation from Mediaservices for each copyright infringement case. “According to Art. 504 of the American copyright law, the maximum compensation is $ 150,000, the source writes. “Based on these figures, we can talk about $ 1.65 trillion.”
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