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P2P Networks Dealt Serious Blow in Japan

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has done something that the RIAA has thusfar been unable to accomplish: Deal a crippling blow to the P2P networks based in the country. The Supreme Court of Japan has decided that the MMO P2P service is liable for any copyright infringement that occured as a result of their software / network.

The RIAJ is, not surprisingly, happier than pigs in shit about the decision that awards them £183,000 (or 16,770,056.52 Dinars, for our Algerian readers out there) of MMO's money and vows to keep fighting P2P networks.

Allen Dixon, general counsel for the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) stressed the significance of the ruling. "This case is important in that it is the first decision world-wide that has found that providing an unauthorised file-sharing service itself constitutes an infringement of record companies' rights to make available their recordings on the Internet."

This couldn't come at a better time for MGM. I predeict that they will bring this up in 5... 4... 3...

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