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We reported on a case last year where police raided a Sony music office in Mexico and recovered pirated (illegally obtained) 6000 CDs from Latin Americas golden boy Alejandro Fernández.

If only that was the wake up call the music industry needed.

They’re now being sued in a class action case by a variety of artists for stealing the work of musicians (some of whom are dead) to put onto compliation CDs. One of the now dead artists they’ve chosen to rip off is the one and only Chet Baker – for those who don’t recognise the name, Chet was essentially the Jazz trumpet player of the 50’s

The music industry is now being sued in Canada for approximately 6 billion in piracy, they’ve already admited to at least 50 million in damages.

There are now 300,000 tracks on the books of the music industry that have not been paid for. We’re talking fully released work they’ve slapped onto CDs and digital downloads.

More information here and here.