--- From: kareeat_private To: <declanat_private> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020410220900.026d6150at_private> 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. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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