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Source: Korea Times
It seems that at least 60 record companies have decided to sue over 4,000 individual file sharers In the far east for distributing music online through their own personal blogs. Seems they were warned and given a 6 month grace period but the swapping continued.
The internet portal Naver said posted what the music industry was threatening to do but it didn't seem to have any effect. The record companies said that Naver didn't seem to put much emphasis or take seriously their intentions so they went ahead with their plans and now, court action for 4,000 plus online users. One wonders the amount of time it would take to take legal action against 4,000 individual file sharers. The Korean court system must be havin' a slow down lately.
The move would mark the first action taken by the recording industry against netizens after a revised copyrights law recognizing expanded transmission rights to creative digital contents took effect in January.
The revised law grants rights to transmit music files to music players and recording companies, which were previously limited to copyright holders like composers and lyric writers.
"We intend to prevent recurrence of copyright infringement by giving warnings to online service providers rather than seeking certain payment or legally punishing individual bloggers."
It seems that at least 60 record companies have decided to sue over 4,000 individual file sharers In the far east for distributing music online through their own personal blogs. Seems they were warned and given a 6 month grace period but the swapping continued.
The internet portal Naver said posted what the music industry was threatening to do but it didn't seem to have any effect. The record companies said that Naver didn't seem to put much emphasis or take seriously their intentions so they went ahead with their plans and now, court action for 4,000 plus online users. One wonders the amount of time it would take to take legal action against 4,000 individual file sharers. The Korean court system must be havin' a slow down lately.
The revised law grants rights to transmit music files to music players and recording companies, which were previously limited to copyright holders like composers and lyric writers.
"We intend to prevent recurrence of copyright infringement by giving warnings to online service providers rather than seeking certain payment or legally punishing individual bloggers."