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Article: Peer-to-peer pressure: It's going to get harder for record companies and studios to persuade a court to shut down file-sharing networks as they did with Napster. (FAST FORWARD).(court cases information)(Brief Article)
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- Video Business
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- November 19, 2001
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Buoyed by their courtroom success against Napster, Scour and MP3.com, the major record companies and movie studios have taken off against the next generation of peer-to-peer file-trading services.
In the past month, lawsuits have been filed against ReplayTV maker SonicBlue and three providers of the FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, MusicCity, Grokster and Kazaa.
Although FastTrack was designed to avoid the legal trap Napster fell into--by maintaining no centralized menu of files available on the network--the studios argue that the services should still be held liable for the infringing activity of their users, many of whom use them to trade music and ...