Big Music targets Naver users
p2pnet.net News:- In South Korea, 60 domestic music labels are preparing a collective lawsuit against 4,000 people: not for file-sharing through p2p networks, but for offering music files for download on Naver, a popular blog service:
"We demanded Naver force its personal blog service users to delete music files they illegally uploaded on their blogs," a representative from the labels told reporters.
"But Naver passively reacted to our demands, and we decided to file a lawsuit against 4,000 Internet users for violating copyright law."
This is the first action after a recent copyright reform, which apparently outlawed both the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted material.
Rik Lambers – CoCo
[Lambers is a former researcher at the Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, who's now in transition to a new full time job in the field of IP/Internet law. He's also an associate member of the European INDICARE project, which researches consumer issues related to DRM.]
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July 19th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
I always wondered how long they would take to get the users at places like Xanga and Myspace who play music on their pages.
July 20th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Maybe I should get some “capital gains tax” reforms which allow me to sue corporations which don’t give me personally a 10% share of their capital gains..
Any other industry and people would be storming the capitals with torches and pitchforks.. but this is the precious “music” industry..
oh please.