nightflier
12-22-2006, 03:10 PM
From: New York Times, 22 December 2006
RECORDING COMPANIES SUE RUSSIAN SITE IN U.S. COURT
Recording companies have filed suit in U.S. Federal District Court in
Manhattan against a Russan online music service. The lawsuit seeks an
injunction against AllofMP3.com to prevent it from selling copyrighted
music without permission and to force it to surrender its domain names.
The Russian site sells albums for a fraction of the cost of legal music
sites and offers music from artists who have not authorized online
sales of their music. The AllofMP3 site claims that it complies with
Russian copyright law. Russia agreed to rein in Russian Web sites that
illegally sell copyrighted materials as a condition of joining the
World Trade Organization, but without evident progress to date. The
U.S. lawsuit targets Mediaservices, the AllofMP3 site's Moscow-based
operator, which also runs a music service called allTunes that uses an
interface similar to that of iTunes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/technology/22music.html
RECORDING COMPANIES SUE RUSSIAN SITE IN U.S. COURT
Recording companies have filed suit in U.S. Federal District Court in
Manhattan against a Russan online music service. The lawsuit seeks an
injunction against AllofMP3.com to prevent it from selling copyrighted
music without permission and to force it to surrender its domain names.
The Russian site sells albums for a fraction of the cost of legal music
sites and offers music from artists who have not authorized online
sales of their music. The AllofMP3 site claims that it complies with
Russian copyright law. Russia agreed to rein in Russian Web sites that
illegally sell copyrighted materials as a condition of joining the
World Trade Organization, but without evident progress to date. The
U.S. lawsuit targets Mediaservices, the AllofMP3 site's Moscow-based
operator, which also runs a music service called allTunes that uses an
interface similar to that of iTunes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/technology/22music.html