p2pnet.net News:- The Big Four record label cartel’s relentless, multi-million dollar war to bring p2p file sharers and file sharing under its exclusive control has been extended to South Korea.

EMI (Britain), UMG (France), WMG (America) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) are using their various enforcement organizations such as the mainstream media-backed RIAA, BPI and IFPI to try to sue people into buying over-priced, formulaic music ‘product’.

Now, something called Nofree, billed as a South Korean “copyright protection firm,” is demanding that state prosecutors, “punish NHN Corp., the country’s biggest Internet portal operator, and 2,707 Internet users for allegedly illegally swapping digital music files,” says Agence France Presse.

“NHN was accused of ignoring a request to stop users from sharing music files.”

The case marks South Korea’s first legal action against a, “P2P (peer-to-peer) program that allows users to access computer files directly from each other’s hard disk drives,” says AFP, without naming the application(s).

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See:-
Agence France Presse – South Korea music industry files Internet-sharing suit, August 2, 2005

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