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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 16:08:38 PDT

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    From: kareeat_private
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    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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