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An Unfortunate Thing Has Happened To MIDI-Lovers Around The World!!!

Several Law Suits Have Been Filed Against Web Sites That Have Posted Lyrics, MIDI Music Tunes, And Other Types Of Music On Their Web Pages! (One popular MIDI site is currently being sued for $2,000,000)

At least one overseas site has had their equipment and records confiscated by the police!

In The USA, It Is Believed Some Sites And Their E-Mail Are Being Monitored By The FBI

These law suits have been made by large companies and organizations, suggesting violation of various copyright laws.

This has scared many individual web site owners! Therefore, many web sites or their music have been removed from the internet until these problems are addressed and resolved.

From Now On You'll Get Many Broken Links
On many Pages When You Click On
A Link To MIDI Pages
And/Or MIDI Sequencer's Pages

This Situation Has Also Caused A Very Adverse Effect On All The Search Engines. And You Will Now Find Many Invalid Files And Links With Their Search Results.

Before Now A Copyright Was Only Good For 75 Years, So I'll Make Sure That Any MIDIs That I Use Are AT Least A Hundred Or So Years Old.

NEWS ITEM FROM CNET
Better Music Incorporated and the Association Society of Composers, Artists and Performers have begun to cite midi site owners for the playing of copyrighted music on the internet. Officials state that any copyrighted music reproduced on the net constitutes a performance and therefore falls under the rights of performance laws. Midi site owners, they say, must pay performance right fees for each piece of music which is played, every time it is played. The standard fee is .071 cents per song per performance. When this writer contacted BMI and ASCAP he was told that any performance of copyrighted material, public or private, violated international copyright law and carries stiff fines up to one million dollars per performance unless a fee is paid prior to the performance. The BMI fee is $250 per year and the ASCAP fee is $500 per year minimum