Limewire addict?

Name: Anupam Sanyal

Age: 20

Location: A dorm room in VirginiaTech

'Past' Hobby: Downloading his favourite songs from Limewire

Villain: MPAA

Case: Filed a notice against Anupam for "Illegally" downloading songs from a P2P network

Result: Anupam fined $4000 by the MPAA. Yes, he was asked to pay Four Thousand Dollars in an out of court settlement.

I guess this is what they meant when they coined the term 'Apocalypse'.


It's not only happening in the U.S. Check out this story about the U.K. music industry winning a case against online file sharing. Here are the highlights of the story-:

High Court judges ordered two men to pay the British Phonographic Industry between £1,500 and £5,000 for making thousands of songs available online.
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The two men, who the BPI decided not to name in publicising the cases, were accused along with three others of using peer-to-peer software to share 8,906 songs over the internet.
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A postman from Brighton, said he was unaware that what he was doing was illegal and did not seek to gain financially.His case was also thrown out, with Judge Justice Lawrence Collins declaring: "Ignorance is not a defence".


Reminds me of the line in Sweet Child o Mine... Where do we go now, where do we go?

Funny, I downloaded that song using You Know Who !

*The Above image courtesy photo number 467 in Anupam's facebook photo album*