A Norwegian student, the 24-year-old Frank Bruvik, has been ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 crowns ($14,520) for making his own Napster.no website, a clone of the now-closed Napster.com website.
According to the prosecutors the Norwegian Napster site was the most high-profile piracy site in Norway for downloading music:
Bruvik was sued by the IFPI, together with Norway's TONO performing-rights society, the Nordic Copyright Bureau and major music companies including EMI, BMG, Sony Music and Universal Music. |
"The ruling said it is illegal to distribute the links, but that it's legal to use them. That is a victory for all Internet users in Norway," Vyrje said, estimating that Norwegians make about 60 million to 100 million copies of pirated music per year.
The $14,520 fine was about a fifth of the music industry's original claim of estimated losses of sales caused by Napster.no. Read the complete article here.
Source: News.com
