Good luck, but...

We're pleased that Stelios is taking the judgement against Easyeverything to High Court Appeal, but we're not sure that attempting to argue that someone downloading a copyrighted album onto CD to play it later is akin to video recording a TV show to watch later is going to fly. Clearly, the BPI will be able to argue conclusively and persuasively that there's a difference between taping something either broadcast Free To Air or else paid for by prior subscription, and burning a CD of material that hasn't been made freely available. Stelios would be better placed pointing out that EasyEverything merely made the computers and CD burners available, and it was up to the individual users to ensure they were not breaching copyright guidelines.

EasyTarget

We're a little curious as to how the court has decided that Easyinternet "allowed" customers to download copyrighted music - for a precise USD8.16.

Did the BPI have evidence that Easyinternet encouraged customers to download the material? Did it prove that Easyinternet knew what was being downloaded? Not from what we can see on the reports. We think the judgement is flawed - if Easy had indeed been suggesting to its customers "give us a quid, and take home a Craig David", we could see the BPI's point. Instead, it looks like they've not been able to kick the people they want, so they've gone for an easy target instead.