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Scottish woman given probation for sharing music

Anne Muir gets three years probation sentence for sharing music online.

She is the first person in Scotland to ever be convicted of illegally sharing music content on a P2P file sharing network. Muir admitted to distributing £54,000 worth of copyrighted music files over an unnamed file sharing network.



Her case began with complaints from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) as part of an investigation into heavy sharers of music. A formal complaint was made to Strathclyde Police, and Muir's home was searched.

Computer equipment was seized from the 58 year old's residence, and investigators found 7,493 digital music files and 24,243 karaoke files. The content has an estimated street value of £54,792.

Her lawyer said that Muir did not financially benefit from her illegal activities, and called the court's attention to Muir's ongoing state of depression, for which she is receiving psychiatric help.

Written by: James Delahunty @ 1 Jun 2011 14:33

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• hikaricor

  Is that all? I have tons more than she does lol.
  Clearly she's depressed because she sucks at internets.

  1.6.2011 15:52 #1

• deak91

  street value ????? its not like drugs the longer new music stays on the shelf the lower the price goes because of other free outlets most people know the after 3-4 months the value of new music drops 50%-60% so they need to look at the age of the music
  

  1.6.2011 18:27 #2

• xboxdvl2

  i wanna know which street i can get £54000 for my music on.
  

  R.I.P. mr 1990 ford falcon.looking for a new car.computers still going good.

  1.6.2011 23:40 #3

• nintenut

  Quote:Computer equipment was seized from the 58 year old's residence, and investigators found 7,493 digital music files and 24,243 karaoke files. The content has an estimated street value of £54,792.
  How in the f*** does that work out?
  

  
  

  2.6.2011 01:28 #4

• xboxdvl2

  Originally posted by nintenut: Quote:Computer equipment was seized from the 58 year old's residence, and investigators found 7,493 digital music files and 24,243 karaoke files. The content has an estimated street value of £54,792.
  How in the f*** does that work out? theres 31736 files if each file was brought from itunes at $0.99 each it would work out $31418.64 given the exchange rate im guessing between £10000 & £20000.
  

  R.I.P. mr 1990 ford falcon.looking for a new car.computers still going good.

  2.6.2011 03:35 #5

• juventini

  Originally posted by xboxdvl2: i wanna know which street i can get £54000 for my music on. NICE
  

  Forza Juve!!

  3.6.2011 06:52 #6

• arithon68

  7,493 + 24,243 = 31,736 tracks
  
  £54,792 / 31,736 = £1.73 per track. Hello?
  
  Now even with current music, tracks only cost £0.72 so best price from iTunes that lot would fetch £22,849.92 and if she bought the CDs at £6.99 per album with 12 tracks per CD would cost £18,486.22 so the musics "street value" is actually £36,305.78 less than claimed. All based on the assumption that none of this is bargain-basement stuff and all bought NEW!

  3.6.2011 09:16 #7

• Mez

  Originally posted by deak91: street value ????? its not like drugs the longer new music stays on the shelf the lower the price goes because of other free outlets most people know the after 3-4 months the value of new music drops 50%-60% so they need to look at the age of the music I think that means the value is extremely inflated like the street price of drugs.

  3.6.2011 15:10 #8

• DADEO1

  Did they knock or just sort of invite themseves in?

  4.6.2011 10:53 #9

• Bbrign

  Originally posted by xboxdvl2: Originally posted by nintenut: Quote:Computer equipment was seized from the 58 year olds residence, and investigators found 7,493 digital music files and 24,243 karaoke files. The content has an estimated street value of £54,792.
  How in the f*** does that work out? theres 31736 files if each file was brought from itunes at $0.99 each it would work out $31418.64 given the exchange rate im guessing between £10000 & £20000. Im wondering if this is the same music shared with millions over the airwaves... Just saying!

  4.6.2011 11:01 #10