Music industry takes on operators of eDonkey servers

Just Learnin' · Sep 18, 2007, 08:13 PM

Source: heise online

On Friday the German music industry celebrated a partial victory in its fight against the illegal distribution of music on the Internet. A temporary injunction issued by the District Court (LG) in Hamburg and served to the operator of an eDonkey server had "ordered the said operator to take his computer off-line for as long as the range of music files offered for download via the server contains illegal files," the German Chapter of the [COLOR=#0000ff]International Federation of the Phonographic Industry[/COLOR] (IFPI) declared (File Number 308 O 273/07). The way of describing the case chosen by the Chapter is a highly abridged version of events, however. As a matter of fact, in the case dealt with by the court in Hamburg, the operator was only prohibited from distributing the songs contained on one album of one band.
According to the IFPI the district courts in Frankfurt-on-the-Main and Düsseldorf have issued similar orders to operators of servers. "We shall in future take legal action against any operator of a P2P network server who makes tracks available illegally," Peter Zombik, the Director of the German Chapter of the IFPI, said on Friday. It was "sad to see the inherently beneficial P2P network technology still being used to violate copyright on a massive scale -- the availability of appropriate filtering technology notwithstanding," he added.

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Just Learnin' HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Posts: 1,414 Rep Power: 56 System Specs	Music industry takes on operators of eDonkey servers Source: heise online On Friday the German music industry celebrated a partial victory in its fight against the illegal distribution of music on the Internet. A temporary injunction issued by the District Court (LG) in Hamburg and served to the operator of an eDonkey server had "ordered the said operator to take his computer off-line for as long as the range of music files offered for download via the server contains illegal files," the German Chapter of the [COLOR=#0000ff]International Federation of the Phonographic Industry[/COLOR] (IFPI) declared (File Number 308 O 273/07). The way of describing the case chosen by the Chapter is a highly abridged version of events, however. As a matter of fact, in the case dealt with by the court in Hamburg, the operator was only prohibited from distributing the songs contained on one album of one band. According to the IFPI the district courts in Frankfurt-on-the-Main and Düsseldorf have issued similar orders to operators of servers. "We shall in future take legal action against any operator of a P2P network server who makes tracks available illegally," Peter Zombik, the Director of the German Chapter of the IFPI, said on Friday. It was "sad to see the inherently beneficial P2P network technology still being used to violate copyright on a massive scale -- the availability of appropriate filtering technology notwithstanding," he added.