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Story: New Euro law could make criminals of us all

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This looks clearly like it was written by lawyers working for the major record labels and film companies. let's look at some history.

When sheet music was sold, it was these companies who wanted to ban recorded music, until they found a way to sell and make money from records.

When records were the major money-spinner, they attempted to stop the cassette system from being introduced, then moved to "home taping is killing music", until they introduced their own cassettes.

In recent years, they lobbied the EU to ban Internet caching as a "prima facie case of copying".

Now they are after the file-sharers, of course this will stop as soon as they have a way to gather money from it.

Personally, I have bought many records and CDs from artists who I first heard because someone made me a copy, radio and especially Internet radio stations introduce us to new artists.

I have also paid multiple times for the same record, on single, vinyl album, CD and multiple compilations, "Make me smile" by Steve Harley anyone?

More power to those artists who eschew the large record companies and issue releases themselves - a plague on all your houses.

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