Warner Music Group Employee Charged With Stealing $700,000
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 11 July 2011
What is it with recording industry folks getting charged with actual theft these days? First we had folks from the Spanish music collection society SGAE charged with a complicated scheme to divert money from artists to themselves. Then we had the story of IFPI execs doing something similar. Now comes the news that a single employee at Warner Music, Andrew Robertson, whose job was "equipment buyer," may have stolen somewhere around $700,000 over a four year period.
That is stealing. Filesharing is not. Otherwise both would have $700,000 now. Perhaps the entertainment industry can understand it with such a simple example. I doubt that though.