Michael Jackson rejects gaol for music pirates

Reads the RIAAot act

By INQUIRER staff

Tue Jul 22 2003, 12:22

MUSIC STAR Michael Jackson has hit out at plans to gaol people who copy music using P2P networks, it has emerged.

That follows proposed legislation by US politicians which would bang people in gaol for as long as five years and face $200,000 fines.

According to a story on Ananova, Jackson described himself as "speechless" at the idea of putting people in prison for downloading music.

He said that while he thought it was wrong to pirate music, prison wasn't the right answer to the problem.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) supports the legislation that Howard Berman and John Conyers are proposing.

It believes that the music industry is being seriously hit by the use of peer to peer software. µ

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