Anti piracy group uses music without permission.

RomanNose · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:36

Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now claiming at least a million euros for the unauthorised distribution of his work on DVDs. To make matters even worse, a board member of a royalty collection agency offered to to help the composer to recoup the money, but only if he received 33% of the loot.

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrounds-anti-piracy-campaign-111201/?_
This is hilarious to see BREIN get caught in the act. I for one hope he wins just to stop them putting those flipping anti piracy advertisements that you can't skip that actually make you want to pirate.

tidusjar · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:49

Ironic.

Maccy · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:51

I can only laugh at this and agree with the OP.

Glaucus · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:52

Yep, it's pretty darn funny.

kylew · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:57

tidusjar said:
Ironic.

It's actually called hypocrisy.

It's things like this that really confuse me when it comes to some people's attitudes towards piracy on these forums, like a select bunch who actually want it to be criminalised which will only serve the purpose of increasing the number of people with criminal convictions with no beneficial purpose.

Gzero · 2 Dec 2011 at 20:29

This isn't the first time either, would link it, but it's a rather old story now.