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File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audios, photos and/or videos), program files, documents or electronic books/magazines. It involves various legal aspects as it is often used to exchange data that is copyrighted or licensed.
Upon the rise of music file sharing by consumers on the Internet, MP3.com conceived a new service in early 2000 called My.MP3.com that allowed users to rip songs from compact discs that they had already purchased legitimately, then upload the resulting MP3 files to an account managed by MP3.com.
Such services grew after Napster was sued by several music industry groups in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. (2001) which ruled that Napster was liable for enabling copyright infringement under the DMCA since they maintained central servers that tracked file sharing; by switching to the peer-to-peer model, these new services avoided this ...
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Supreme Court is Interested in Illegal Downloading of Songs The Supreme Court doesn't have to hear appeals. It can pick only those it wants to ...
A business model that dissuades illegal file sharing is to make legal content downloading easy and cheap. Pirate websites often host malware which attaches itself to the files served . [ 175 ] If content is provided on legitimate sites and is reasonably priced, consumers are more likely to purchase media legally.
While the DPRA expanded the sound recording’s performance right, performers have still criticized the DPRA’s comparative inequity [5] [6] because composers still have a much wider performance right than performers.
Nealy sued music publishing company Warner Chappell and others, arguing that they took an invalid license to "Jam the Box" from Butler, his former business partner, while Nealy was incarcerated ...
As the litigation continued, the parties consented to a permanent injunction on 26 October 2010 shutting down the LimeWire file-sharing service. [16] The permanent injunction prohibits LimeWire from copying, reproducing, downloading, or distributing a sound recording, as well as directly or indirectly enabling or assisting any user to use the LimeWire system to copy, reproduce or distribute ...