I’d like to think that this, along with his anti-vax shenanigans, is simply a sign of oncoming senility, but from what I’ve read in the past few days, Eric Clapton has apparently always been an asshole:
What with all this recent COVID crap coming from Eric Clapton one almost forgets that he’s been a dick for many years. In this instance, suing a German woman for putting an old bootleg CD that her husband bought in a department store up on eBay. So, for a €9.95 ($11) CD the woman was found to be infringing on copyright and now has to pay legal fees of about $3500. And, “if she continues to keep the listing of the bootlegged recording up on eBay, she’ll face a fine of about $283,000 or six months in prison.”
The woman said her late husband bought the CD in a department store in 1987 and she had no idea it was a bootleg.
I have several Cream albums, a Blind Faith album, and even a Clapton Christmas album, and now I can’t bring myself to listen to any of them. It’s hard to conceive on anyone being so petty.
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