p2p news / p2pnet: The Organized Music family forced Soribada, Korea’s largest p2p file sharing company, to close its Soribada 3 site.

But the company is unrepentant and plans to launch new p2p software soon, says the Chosun Ilbo.

In the US, when OM members EMI Group, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and Sony BMG say ‘jump’ the response is always, ‘How high?’ and, “The move is expected to inflame the powerful music industry, which says file-swapping sites violate its copyright,” says the story

“The Open Soribada software simply supports file-sharing between Internet users, but additional services on the website including registration and reward points will be scrapped,” says the Chosun Ilbo.

Now, “The Soribada webmaster will no longer ask members for personal information or charge them for providing the service in an apparent bid by the firm to place itself beyond the reach of the law.”

“I’m wracking my brain to develop various models that don’t infringe on rights of Internet users and allow us to allocate revenues to copyright holders,” the story has Soribada’s Yang Jung-hwan saying.

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