Copyright Law

Pirate Bay Offers DJ Joel Tenenbaum?s ?$675,000 Mixtape?

By soulxtc

Swedish BitTorrent tracker site offers visitors the 30 songs he was convicted for illegally downloading.

Two weeks ago Joel Tenenbaum was convicted of copyright infringement for illegally downloading 30 songs using the KaZaA P2P program. At $22,500 per song for a total of $675,000, it was nearly 2.5 times the $9,250 per song and $222,000 total handed down to Jammie Thomas in the country’s first file-sharing case to go to trial that preceded him.

Many file-sharers, and in the BitTorrent community especially, have shrugged off the verdict as the last throes of an industry desperate to stay relevant in a world that for all intents and purposes no longer needs them.

Record labels are little more than marketing and financing vehicles with the Internet becoming the tool for instant, global distribution.

In any event, I’m sure many reading this have downloaded some of the 30 songs Tenenbaum was convicted for and then some. Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay is, perhaps taking one last jab at the music industry before it goes legit on August 27th, has changed the site’s homepage to mockingly offer the “RIAA Approved DJ Joel $675,000 Mixtape” for users to download.

You have to hand it to those guys, the Pirate Bay guys sure do put on one hell of a show.

Stay tuned.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).