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Music Publishers Sue Owner of Web File-Sharing Program |
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 — A coalition of record companies sued the operators of the file-sharing program LimeWire for copyright infringement on Friday, claiming the company encouraged users to trade music without permission.
The Recording Industry Association of America said in a statement that it had sued the Lime Group, the corporation’s executives, and the subsidiaries that designed and distributed LimeWire. The suit was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
The case is the first piracy lawsuit brought against a distributor of file-sharing software since the Supreme Court ruled last year that technology companies could be sued for copyright infringement on the grounds that they encouraged customers to steal music and movies over the Internet.
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