The latest salvo in the BPI's ongoing campaign against music piracy, the letters were designed to send a clear message to file sharers - people who exchange pre-recorded music over the internet - that as far as the major record labels were concerned, file sharing was no different from shoplifting. On behalf of its client, the British Phonographic Industry, Wiggin, a high-powered media law firm specialising in the protection of music copyright, had just sent 30 similar letters to households across Britain.
I thought: someone's messing me about."īut the letter was deadly serious.
"I don't even use the computer - it's for my daughter. "It said I'd been caught illegally downloading music off the internet and had to pay a £2,500 fine or else go to prison," said Mrs Price yesterday, still recoiling from the shock.
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