Music Executive Ridiculed at Pirate Bay Trial

From Wired:

Laughter filled The Pirate Bay trial here Wednesday when John Kennedy, the chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, testified that people would have purchased every music track they got free file sharing.

... The day's testimony -- which also came from Ludvig Werner, CEO of IFPI's Swedish section and Per Sundin, CEO of the Swedish subsidiary of Universal Music -– amounted to accounts of The Pirate Bay ruining Hollywood.

All the while, lawyers for the four Pirate Bay co-founders drove home the point that the lobbying groups do not go after the millions of people who use The Pirate Bay tracker to search for pirated works online.

emily | 6:37 PM | Copypright Issues |
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