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WTF?! Remember the early days of the internet, when many net denizens would download music from file-sharing platforms such as Napster and burn it onto CDs? Like Blockbuster, such things are seen as a relic of a bygone age, so it's surprising to learn that a UK man has just been handed a suspended jail sentence for unauthorized mixing and selling of music CDs.
Trading standards officers first began investigating 47-year-old Marc Kearns from Snaith in East Yorkshire in 2019. The BBC reports that the the British Phonographic Industry had become aware of his love of old-school CD music burning a year earlier. A warrant was finally executed in September 2022.
Yorkshire Council said Kearns created and distributed CDs containing unauthorized remixes of well-known tracks, using identifiable elements of original sound recordings without permission from the copyright owners.
