FC: Allow song-swapping, pay the RIAA a $1 million fine

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: karee () tstonramp com
To: <declan () well com>
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020410220900.026d6150 () mail well com>
Subject: Recording Industry Collects $1 Million dollar fine
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:59:35 -0700

<sarcasm> This isn't excessive or anything. </sarcasm>
I imagine that quite a few corporate lawyers are scurrying like madmen to
get the sysadmins controlling their networks to drop mp3 servers.  As it
stands, such has already happened to a rather largish video game company,
where a friend happens to work.  Probably doesn't help that they're owned by
a RIAA member company :-)

-Karee

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/entertainment/3029974.htm

Recording industry collects $1 million fine
BY SUE ZEIDLER

LOS ANGELES - (Reuters) - Big Brother is listening!

That's the message the recording industry hoped to send on Tuesday by
announcing it had collected $1 million from a company that let employees
swap songs on an internal server.

Arizona-based Integrated Information Systems Inc., which ran a dedicated
server permitting employees to access and distribute thousands of music
files over the company network, agreed to pay the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) $1 million rather than face the music in
court.

The trade group, which represents the major music companies like AOL Time
Warner Inc.'s Warner Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music,
Vivendi Universal and EMI Group Plc has been on a legal crusade to stamp out
online copyright infringement since successfully hobbling Napster, the
original song-swapping service, with a preliminary injunction last year.

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