More piracy whatnot, and the LA County Board Of Supervisors has approved new rules that would make owners of properties used for the illegal manufacture or sale of recordings or films liable for copyright infringement. It will have a similar effect to the precedent set by that recent UK court ruling in which the owners of a market that knowingly allowed market sellers to sell pirated CDs were found guilty of infringement.
The boss of the Recording Industry Association Of America, Mitch Bainwol, welcomed the new rules, telling reporters: "This ordinance gives new teeth to a comprehensive effort to reduce counterfeiting and piracy - which costs thousands of local jobs and millions of dollars in revenue - throughout the city and county. We thank Supervisor Yaroslavsky for his continuing leadership on these issues, as well as the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors and county counsel for their efforts".