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LimeWire goes after RIAA members’ ‘illegal online cartel’ in court

published on September 26th, 2006 . by joe

I hope LimeWire wins but I doubt it will.  The RIAA is just too powerful.

A much more interesting line of defence is LimeWire’s attack against the music industry. It says the case is “part of a much larger conspiracy to destroy all innovation that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models”. The RIAA and its members are using the law for anti-competitive means, not to control piracy, LimeWire charges.

Online music distribution, is it notes, a disruptive business model for the music majors, which are “using the exclusivity rights inherent in their copyrights - that they deployed with a vengeance, by unlawfully extending and pooling those] to cartelize the network for the online distribution of music… They also pooled their huge monetary resources to combat and eventually defeat many of their online competitors.”

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