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Title: Record Labels to sue SorceForge, Limewire, Vuze, Morpheus Post by: Alex on November 15, 2008, 06:34:31 PM Record Labels to sue SorceForge, Limewire, Vuze, Morpheus
The Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France, or the SPPF, have been given the go-ahead to sue four US companies for developing P2P applications with the intention of distributing illegal content, TorrentFreak reports. The four applications in question are Vuze, Limewire, Mopheus and Shareaza. Shareaza is hosted by the open source development platform SourceForge, so the SPPF have decided to sue SorceForge for being responsible for the distribution of the application. According to recent French legislation, all P2P software must have a built-in feature to block the transfer of unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works. The SPPF's argument is that these applications permit the distribution of copyrighted works. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/tU-fubzdySU/record-labels-to-sue-sorceforge-limewire-vuze-morpheus |