I guess so. Here's an article dating back to 2005.


Big music on the attack - new countries hit
Jonny Evans - Tuesday, 15 November 2005


International recording industry organisation the IFPI has launched what it calls the "biggest escalation yet" in its battle against file-sharing.

The IFPI has begun over 2,100 new legal cases against individuals. It has also launched litigation in five new European and Asian countries while beginning its first actions in South America.

Criminal prosecutions, all networks hit

File-sharers in Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina, Hong Kong and Singapore are threatened by criminal penalties and payment of damages.

Thousands of file-sharers worldwide have already been forced to pay $3,000 or more in damages to the music label multinationals for sharing music using peer-to-peer services.

It's the fourth wave of litigation since the international campaign began in March 2004, and it targets users across all the major unauthorised networks, including FastTrack (Kazaa), Gnutella (BearShare), eDonkey, DirectConnect, BitTorrent, WinMX, and SoulSeek.

Peace through war

Announcing the latest wave of actions at a press conference in Stockholm today, IFPI chairman and CEO John Kennedy said: "This is a significant escalation of our enforcement actions against people who are uploading and distributing copyrighted music on P2P networks.

"The message today is that there are no havens for the theft of music on the Internet."

Kennedy proclaimed that by its actions, the recording industry has succesfully changed the perception of music: "Making it clear that copyright laws will be enforced against illegal file-sharing".

"There is no excuse to steal music," he said.

The IFPI is launching a mix of civil and criminal prosecution against file-sharers. What type of litigation depends on what laws exist in the country the action takes place.

The IFPI has also released a number of documents and research on file sharing and piracy.

I mainly use mp3 blogs as i like reading about what i'm downloading but soulseek is the best type of software of this kind for me.

how do you add people to your user list

right-click in the user-field in the right upper corner
then -> add user -> enter the name

but remember

actually i try download communism but all i get is shitty 5 second advert of a porn site, stupid fucks

in my opinion, for discovering new music mp3 blogs are the best option.
for finding things you're specifically looking for, soulseek is the way to go.

or if you're one of those people who gets a hard on from listening to unreleased albums 30 minutes after they're leaked on the internet then you should find a way into indietorrents or oink i guess.

Is anybody a member of indietorrents and could send me an invite?

Does the site suck?

Do they have any good live music?

Thanks for the info.

Are any of these download sites offering lossless (flac or wav) music ?

Is there some kind of google blog to search mp3 blogs?

can I download mp3s of midgets having sex?

is it true that blogging causes prostatism?

what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?



wait....who are we asking?

I'm not familiar with Indietorrents, but What and Waffles have an excellent amount of lossless music.

Just so you know, bro, they have to send warning letters in the mail before you can be prosecuted. My friend in junior high had a whole bunch of songs and she just ignored like 10 warning letters before they finally did something about it.

and the "something" was...??

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check your PMs!!!

Yeah. That was it.

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