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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Music pirates targeted

The big story today is that UK record labels are to sue music pirates.

As trailed in Online article two weeks ago (Just who are the bad guys?), British music industry body the BPI has toughened its stance. From today's MediaGuardian story:

"The British Phonographic Industry, the trade body for record labels in the UK, is to announce at a press conference today it will take legal action against those who make their record collections available on the web for others to copy.

"It is following in the footsteps of US labels that sparked a huge row last year after a 12-year-old schoolgirl in New York was sued for downloading songs and ended up paying £12,000 in an out of court settlement.

"She was one of more than 200 people sued in America.

"The BPI hopes that by going after so-called "uploaders" - those who make digital music files available to others via file-sharing programmes such as Kazaa and Grokster - it will be able to win the PR fight as well as the legal battle. "

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