Re: [acid-jazz] Music industry sues audiogalaxy

From: _dakati _ (dakati@postmaster.co.uk)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 09:12:59 CEST

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    ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) > Celine Dion, Madonna, Destiny's Child and Dave Matthews Band, the suit alleges.

    > The RIAA said Audiogalaxy has ignored numerous warnings to halt the
    > trade of copyright-protected music by its users.

    I don't think this is true...

    Audiogalaxy 'has' done something; at least attempted. Type in Dave Matthews, Cenine Dion... Almost every title categorized under Destiny's Child is 'x'd off -- meaning, you can't get at it.. When you click on the 'x' it reads: "SEARCH PROHIBITED, You cannot request this song due to copyright restrictions. Please try a different search."

    I'm a little confused as to what the RIAA's definition of "encourages and facilitates" is...

    > they claim is eating into sales.

    is this true? I remember reading somewhere that record sales were actually 'higher' that ever before...

    > The RIAA has cases pending against similar services including
    > Grokster, Morpheus MusicCity, Kazaa and its owner Streamcast Networks.
    >
    > The industry's most successful legal thrust grounded the original
    > peer-to-peer song-swapping network Napster, now controlled by
    > Bertelsmann AG.
    >
    > Among the artists whose works are traded on Audiogalaxy include:
    > Celine Dion, Madonna, Destiny's Child and Dave Matthews Band, the
    > suit alleges.
    >
    > The RIAA said Audiogalaxy has ignored numerous warnings to halt the
    > trade of copyright-protected music by its users.
    >
    > Reuters/Variety
    >
    > 05/28/02 14:22 ET
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    Music industry sues audiogalaxy

    Music industry sues U.S. song-swapping site
    Reuters
    May 28 2002 2:24PM

    LONDON (Reuters) - In its latest attempt to halt music piracy, a contingency of music industry groups, including the labels, songwriters and music publishers, filed a lawsuit against U.S. file-sharing Internet service Audiogalaxy.com.

    The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a powerful trade association for the music labels, and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), filed the suit on Friday in a New York federal court.

    The suit alleges Audiogalaxy, based in Austin, Texas, "wilfully and intentionally" encourages and facilitates "millions of individual, anonymous users to copy and distribute infringing copyrighted works by the millions, if not billions."

    The RIAA, on behalf of the labels, has waged a series of legal battles against a crop of online file-swapping services which users have exploited to trade all manner of copyrighted materials from music to movies and software prorgrams.

    The record industry blames the rise of such services for encouraging consumers to conduct a massive trade in recorded music, a phenomenon they claim is eating into sales.

    The RIAA has cases pending against similar services including Grokster, Morpheus MusicCity, Kazaa and its owner Streamcast Networks.

    The industry's most successful legal thrust grounded the original peer-to-peer song-swapping network Napster, now controlled by Bertelsmann AG.

    Among the artists whose works are traded on Audiogalaxy include: Celine Dion, Madonna, Destiny's Child and Dave Matthews Band, the suit alleges.

    The RIAA said Audiogalaxy has ignored numerous warnings to halt the trade of copyright-protected music by its users.

    Reuters/Variety

    05/28/02 14:22 ET

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    Q-Burns Abstract Message feat. Lisa Shaw -- This time
    LB's Is This The ... Vocal Remix & LB's You Gonna Love Dub

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