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Audiogalaxy sued by RIAA
Posted by Kevin Chen on Saturday, May 25 @ 10:39:15 EDT File Sharing
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The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against Audiogalaxy, adding another front to the industry's legal battles against post-Napster file-swapping services.

Filed in federal court in New York, the suit charges that Audiogalaxy's efforts to filter access to copyrighted songs have been ineffective. As a result, free-ranging access to copyrighted works through the system has gone unchecked--much as once happened with Napster, the industry group contends.

.... Like several other file-swapping services, Audiogalaxy began efforts to filter access to some copyrighted works in mid-2001 after Napster was ordered to do so by a federal judge. However, Napster was never able to comply completely with the court order, and the company shut down its service rather than face increased legal liability.

The RIAA also has copyright suits pending against Napster, StreamCast Networks and its Morpheus software, Amsterdam-based Kazaa BV, West Indies-based Grokster, MP3Board and Madster (formerly known as Aimster).

The Audiogalaxy suit was filed in the southern district of New York, naming the company and CEO Michael Merhej. According to Oppenheim, 476 copyrighted works, all of which could be downloaded using Audiogalaxy, serve as the basis of the suit.

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Re: Audiogalaxy...white flag it Kaz+Morph?? sez Ziff (Score: 1)
by unclefoobar on Sunday, May 26 @ 07:37:53 EDT
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-920737.html Kazaa, Morpheus: Time to surrender? By John Borland Special to ZDNet News May 22, 2002, 12:45 PM PT A legal fight that has pitted file-swapping software companies Kazaa BV and StreamCast Networks against big record labels and movie studios is collapsing as the small companies run out of funds. . . . ujf, working from home to 0wn http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/index.html


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