Sing-A-Long Smackdown
April 24, 2007
| 4:13 PM
A Minnesota woman pleaded guilty in federal court earlier this week to copying thousands of songs and selling them online for use in karaoke machines. According to The Star Tribune, Star Music President Tracy Ann Brock is looking at jail time in what federal prosecutors have described as the "first ever criminal conviction related to infringement of copyrighted karaoke music." Federal agents seized the equipment they believed Brock was using to gather and sell the pirated music in a raid of her home in Burnsville, Minn. She told U.S. District Judge David Doty that she loaded as many as 40,000 songs onto hard drives, which she then tried to sell on eBay and other places on the Internet. -- Michael Martinez
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