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French Recording Industry Sues SourceForge For Hosting Open Source P2P
It would appear that Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF), a group that represents French record labels, is now trying to sue a bunch of non-French file sharing applications, as well as SourceForge . This brings up a lot of different issues, so let's break ...
SPPF - Société Civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France
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Recording Industry vs. The People
recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com — Today in a telephone conference, a voice intervened which was not that of any of the participating... attorneys. It was that of the RIAA's "mystery man", Matthew Oppenheim, who was secretly lurking, unannounced, in the background. (One obvious practice ... (more) Recording Industry vs. The People
French Record Labels Suing Sourceforge, Among Others
French Record Labels Suing Sourceforge, Among Others
ostatic.com — If you thought the RIAA had cornered the market on heavy-handed, misguided lawsuits, think again. TorrentFreak reports... that the Societe civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) plan on pursuing a lawsuit against three US-based ... (more) French Record Labels Suing Sourceforge, Among Others
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Those poor silly deluded French RIAA wannabes
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... writes   Interestingly, SPFF is also going after Sourceforge, the open source development website, because it hosts the P2P application Shareaza. Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds”   Michael Masnick also points out another incredibly obvious point Now that it’s been ...

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