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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