Users warned as RnBXclusive.com shut down by police
 

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A takedown notice warned visitors who have used the site to download music they could face up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine.

Soca said music posted on the site was "stolen from the artists" and may have "damaged careers".

A man has been arrested for fraud and bailed pending further enquiries, police told the BBC.

"Much of the music offered for download by the RnBXclusive.com website was illegally obtained from artists, leading the industry to attribute losses of approximately £15m per year to the site's activity."

Soca added that the action was part of a wider operation combating illegal uploading of copyrighted material online, with several sites being targeted using "varied techniques".

Some industry observers believe the action is a fresh sign that British authorities are stepping up efforts to stamp out online piracy.

However, Loz Kaye, leader of the Pirate Party UK, said he disagreed with the nature of the closure.

"The explicit threat to visitors of the site and take down notice is alarming.

"The claim that the information gathered can be used to identify visitors and their location, followed by a statement that Soca has the capability to monitor, investigate and inform visitors internet service providers of apparent 'infringements', making visitors liable for prosecution seems extreme and unduly threatening.

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Hire gideongallery as legal counsel.

:2 cents:

That seemed to be a pretty major player in the pirate scene - another one bites the dust

only if you live in the land of the brave and free

Can you afford his rates ?:2 cents::winkwink:

i'm just waiting for Cherry7 to pop in and say that the police are racist as it was a RnB site.

The "easy file sharing" business model is falling apart. Time for people to invest in legal long term profits :2 cents:

Never heard of that site.

very popular over here in the UK with all the youngsters who listen to crap RnB and think they are gangsta :)

at 1$ a song on itunes .. stop fucking stealing... buying a cd at 25$ was a rip off when 90% of the song were crap made only to fill around one good single... but now if you like an artist buy his music.

they should sell digitals movies at 10$ each .. 5$ for a rental... i never watch any movies more than 2x anyway.

I just rely on youtube to remove anything that should'nt be there. So if I want to hear a song I just search it there. Should be safe enough since most of the songs will be on a companies account anyway.

The facist state taking our loverly free content - will anyone help us ?

Gideon ?

Damian ?

Anyone ?

Me neither. All this shutting things down seems to have been quite a lot of sites I didn't even know existed.

Fuck paying for propaganda. The definition of sheep.

Rocky Patel...

that's funny. there are plenty of full length movies on youtube as well as music.

yep and there are also programs which people use to rip music from the Youtube videos which they put on thier phones, seems to be a very popular way of getting free tunes with the youngsters over here in the UK