Warner Music attacks specialized web-browser
Found on Boing Boing on Tuesday, 06 December 2005
PearLyrics is a program that displays the lyrics of the currently-playing track in iTunes: it gets the lyrics from the ID3 tag in the MP3 file, or if they aren't in there, it searches for them on a few different web sites, and then saves them into the MP3s.
It's very handy: I managed to use it to download the lyrics for almost half of my music collection in one fell swoop.
Except that the author got a "Cease and Desist" letter from Warner/Chappel Music, who seem to think that his program -- which is, basically, nothing more than a specialized web browser -- is somehow in violation of their copyrights.
Now if the entertainment industry just knew where to send it to, the Internet would already have received a "Cease and Desist" letter.