arstechnica.com — A Spanish rights group for musicians and artists has been hiring detectives to sneak into weddings in order to videotape the goings on and catch certain venues using music illegally. The rights group collected a fine—but came out nearly €18,000 in the red after being fined itself.
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arthursucksDec 18, 2008
Wow.. Just wow!
dross1260Dec 18, 2008
If the cameraman replayed the video of the copyright material being played, wouldn't that be breaking the law also.
slikstaDec 18, 2008
Shameless bastards interfering with peoples weddings. Maybe their next cameraman will get beat down.
uramoDec 23, 2008
SGAE= thiefs and politicals corrupts
chusrccDec 24, 2008
And if you look for spanish news, you will know that they (SGAE) get money from charity concerts too..here there is an example:<a class="user" href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/gente-y-tv/noticias/20081217/53600767535/la-sgae-cobrara-por-los-derechos-de-autor-de-la-musica-que-se-interpreto-en-la-marato-de-tv3.html">http://www.lavanguardia.es/gente-y-tv/noticias/200 ...</a>The TV3 Marat? was organized to earn money for people with mental disorders. They will get 45000 Euro from this money...And there are more and more examples like this... many more...