RnBXclusive shut down, users threatened with 10 years in prison

Music Week is reporting that filesharing site RnBXclusive.com has been taken down by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

Visitors to the site – which is a huge concern, with over 250,000 likes on Facebook – are informed that “the individuals behind this website have been arrested for fraud”, and warned that past users “may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law.”

As if that wasn’t heavy-handed enough, visitors are shown their own IP address on-screen and informed that “SOCA has the capability to monitor and investigate you, and can inform your internet service provider of these infringements. You may be liable for prosecution and the fact that you have received this message does not preclude you from prosecution.”

SOCA – an agency which claims on its website to tackle serious crime such as “Class A drugs, people smuggling and human trafficking, major gun crime, fraud, computer crime and money laundering” – signs off with a nice moral message for us all to take home:

“As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry.”

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 11:41 am and is filed under News and tagged with , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

  • http://twitter.com/mikecitybass Mike Raffone

    ha, that last paragraph :|
    if nobody made music for money we’d be left with the terrible situation where people make music because they are passionate about it

  • Joe

    Anything that disrupts the capitalist flow of money is immediately deemed on par with human trafficking… It’s sad what society has come to. I know for a fact that many current artists utilize the publicity the internet provides to launch their careers and make their respective livings in ways other than record sales. Something as pure as music shouldn’t be categorized as an industry in the first place. The internet is helping MUSIC. Forget about the industry…

  • Funkforward

    “If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry.” 
    http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

  • Jose Maria Mart Lo

    The Internet is helping music…yes for sure but not file sharing …ask independent labels, records owners,etc…

  • Jose Maria Mart Lo

    Money is needed for art……but speaking for myself as a music fan i dont want to collect files thas for sure.Anyway there is a lot  of amazing  free music on the internet…mixes,free tracks,……you could spend  ages just listening to that stuff with no need of illegal file sharing.

  • neka

     An illegal download is not always a loss of sale. “Records owners” – can’t download vinyl.

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