Labels Sue Usenet Service

Found on Billboard.biz on Wednesday, 17 October 2007
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Major record companies have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com, Billboard.biz has learned.

The suit claims that the usenet.com service sells access to content that includes millions of unauthorized music files and "touts its service as a haven for those seeking pirated content."

Specifically, the complaint alleges, usenet.com loads online bulletin boards or "newsgroups" obtained from the usenet network onto its server. It then sells access to the newsgroups that it has chosen to host on its usenet.com service. The suit claims that many of the newsgroups that usenet.com chooses to offer "are explicitly dedicated to copyright infringement."

The labels seek an unspecified amount of damages, an injunction and a declaration that the company is infringing copyrighted works.

There is really no end to stupidity. I wonder when they will start to sue ISPs, claiming that they support piracy by allowing users to go online. Or hardware manufacturers for inducing infringement. Or themselves for creating content that induces infringement. They are so dumb that it isn't even interesting to make fun of them anymore.