We’ve seen the IFPI, or the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, make numerous headlines as of late. There are have been a multitude of stories concerning copyright infringement suits and allegations. There are the seemingly routine efforts to stifle or halt BitTorrent traffic, regardless of its technological legitimacy. And recently reported was the effort by the group, in conjunction with the youth-minded charity Childnet, to promote legal music downloads through the release of a brief education guide which delineates what’s okay and what’s not okay as far as audio consumption.
We mentioned as much in a recent post, but what we didn’t do is pry open the list of recommended download sites. Today, Ernesto of TorrentFreak, delved in. And what he found was quite surprising. In short, he discovered that the initial set of half a dozen links for his place of residence, the Netherlands, to be little more than vapid domains with little legal substance and maybe even a some slices of adult content thrown in. In error, we presume.
