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Unless your ring ’s name ends with “ etallica , ” suing your fans for right of first publication infringement is very bad for publicity ( and even if it does , that ’s still a dick move Lars ) . So , imagine All Shall Perish ’s surprisal when they learned that a Panamanian copyright troll , which no one remember hiring , recently file courtship against 80 of their fans .
Last Friday , Panama - based copyright litigation firm World Digital Rights filed papers in a Florida motor hotel subpoena the vitals on 80 nameless defendants for allegedly pirating ASP ’s album “ This is Where it stop ” . trouble is , neither ASP nor its recording label , Nuclear Blast , has any clue as who the pit World Digital Rights is . Both band and recording label have give away WDR ’s action as wildcat and “ awful ” .
“ The stria was n’t consulted whatsoever and none of us have ever learn of this company , ” Ryan Downey , the band ’s manager , order TorrentFreak . “ I spoke to the US label manager and German recording label chairwoman who both are as confused as we are . We are digging deeper and looking into the legality of it all . We are thinking it ’s perhaps a sublicensor or some digital aggregator or something ? ! ”
In its defense , WDR claims that the recording label signed an “ undivided permit ” to the album on March 12 of this year , which grants it the rightfield to process on the banding ’s behalf . Whatever the reasonableness , both All Shall Perish and Nuclear Blast need to get this image out post haste before WDR seek to in reality collect on the $ 150,000 / somebody they ’re asking for . [ Torrent FreakviaBoingBoing ]
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