[acid-jazz] Music industry sues audiogalaxy

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Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 02:34:19 CEST

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    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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