Saturday, February 17, 2007

Judge Nixes RIAA-Kazaa Details

Via p2pnet News.

Last year Ray Beckerman, the New York lawyer representing a number of RIAA sue 'em all victims, made it known Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG were using Kazaa, the former bĂȘte noire of the corporate music industry, to get songs they wanted to promote to radio stations.

But the Big 4's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) doesn't have to go into detail about how that was, or still is, achieved, judge Robert M. Levy has ruled, says Beckerman on Recording Industry vs The People.

Kazaa, owned by Australia's Sharmnan Networks, shows up in the majority of the Big 4 file sharing cases and has consequently become the defendant in a class action brought by Catherine Lewan, an ex-user sued by the Big Four's RIAA.

More here.

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