Fraudsters Locked Up ; Scam Netted Pounds 500k

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FRAUDSTERS hatched a five-year digital jukebox scam and stole more than pounds 500,000 in royalties from the music industry. Malcolm Wylie and his son Peter set-up a string of companies selling music systems to pubs and clubs across the North East from their Gateshead-based company, which had a turn-over of more than pounds 1.3m.

But the tunes were downloaded without permission, costing artists and their record companies more than half a million pounds in royalties.

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Fraudsters Locked Up ; Scam Netted Pounds 500k

And now, following a landmark legal case by licensing watchdogs BPI (Brit...

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