(idm) Autechre / Copyright infringement (fwd)

From Blag
Sent Thu, Apr 15th 1999, 22:18

For those of you who weren't on the list last May, here's the mail I got
from Greg Eden regarding the Ae mp3s that I was hosting.

It's important to note that the songs I had online were unavailable (to
the best of my knowledge) and that some of them weren't even on warp (the 
bulk of the files were remixes) 

I did have a lot of stuff up (230MB worth) but you know, there are a lot
of Ae releases, and a lot of those are limited to rediculously small
pressings.

Don't bother trying the url, they're not there now (I yanked everything
down the second I got the email, I'm not going to get sued over something
as stupid as a compressed audio file) but I believe they might be on
bleepbloop (which I have absolutely nothing to do with, by the way)

Note the jab "We have discussed your actions with Sean Booth and Robbed
Brown and they are both personally extremely offended."  Sure they are.

I bet all of the graffiti they did was on Greg Eden's house.  :)


.Bil.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:14:15 GMT
From: Greg Eden <xxxx@xxxx-xxx.xxx>
To: xxxx@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Autechre / Copyright infringement


Dear Sir,

We control the entire copyright vested in several master recordings
(the "Recordings") by Sean Booth and Robert Brown (PKA Autechre). It
has come to our attention that you are distributing some of these
Recordings over the Internet and as such are in gross breach of our
copyright in respect of which we reserve all our rights and the
remedies available to us. Please remove these Recordings from your
website (http://bigsun.wbs.net/homepages/i/d/m/idmmp3/) and cease the
distribution or we will have no option but to consider legal action
against you and/or your service provider.

We have discussed your actions with Sean Booth and Rob Brown and they
are both personally extremely offended.

Please could you confirm by receipt that you have removed all the
recordings and agree not to distribute any such recordings in the
future.

Greg Eden
for and on behalf of 
Warp Records Limited