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Amazon, Apple dish up $300,000 to 'musical crims'

Ralph B

Now I understand! 

Alert

So that's how Eminem does it, eh?

Qux

Such a shame... 

Coat

...but nobody else was going to pay good money for LOtUSFLOW3R, after all...

Steven Hunter

Typical 

Joke

Once again, people buying music instead of downloading it for free are RUINING the music industry! When will they learn?

Slartybardfast

Which Bands/Artists? 

The title says it all..

Ian Ferguson

The gang is called 

Happy

Blazin' Squad, right?

Jared Vanderbilt

Finally a useful application for a botnet. 

Scripting kiddies start coding ... NOW!

Tom 35

60 cops? 

Joke

What was the gang working out of a doughnut shop or something?

Anonymous Coward

P2P 

Just think how much they undoubtedly lost to all the freetards sharing the tracks on The Pirate Bay! :-D

Just out of curiosity, was the music any good?

martinX

Is that a good return 

Not being au fait with expected rates of returns for stolen goods, is a rate of 40% okay, or could they have done better elsewhere? Maybe it's a case of risk versus reward, and the risk seemed very low. For a while.

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