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MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Internet cafe guilty of piracy
by Rattle at 5:20 pm EST, Jan 28, 2003

] The chain of internet cafes launched by Easyjet founder
] Stelios Haji-Ioannou has been found guilty of copyright
] infringement for allowing its customers
] to download music from the web and copy it on to a CD.
]
] The high court judgment brings to a close an 18-month war
] of words between the major record labels and the
] EasyInternet cafe chain over a promotion in which it
] charged customers £5 to copy a CD's worth of music from
] the internet.
]
] The UK trade group, the British Phonographic Industry,
] with member music labels Sony Music, EMI and Universal
] Music, took the internet chain to court last year,
] charging it with copyright infringement.


 
 
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