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It sounded dodgy when we first wrote about it, and now an investigation by The Quietus into Amoeba’s system of selling digitised copies of their rarest records without actually owning the rights to do so seems to have confirmed our misgivings. Library music fiend Johnny Trunk had this to say:

“I think if the albums they have for sale digitally are genuinely impossible to trace (in terms of ownership) then I see no problem with this – in fact it has been standard practise for a few years if the original artists of an obscure/private album have disappeared off the face of the earth. But to have library music up there as downloads without licensing it is not right. And it’s very easy to license these days.”

Legal action, the article goes on to suggest, is not out of the question…