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Italian Media Company Mediaset Joins In On The Fun: Sues YouTube The battle is here! It comes as no surprise that Pirate Bay ends up in court. This has been in the works for a long time. The law suit by the record company interest organization Ifpi claims the site assists in copyright infrigements in the case of 20 albums, 9 movies and 4 computer games. The guys behind the site believes the law suit to be "ridiculous and outrageous". The sum has been calculated by taking the prices in the stores and multiplying it by the times the items have been downloaded and also some additional claims as the artists have not given their consent to the downloads.
It will be quite interesting to see where this ends up and if they are found guilty. Well who knows what will happen then...
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