Music suits.Music Suits: The recording industry filed 261 lawsuits against individuals it says have illegally distributed at least 1,000 copyrighted music files in its first series of suits against "egregious e·gre·gious adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. [From Latin fliers." The latest legal tactic is an attempt to discourage users from posting music on free sites. The Recording Industry Association of America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. has previously sued file-sharing networks such as Kazaa A file sharing service that in 2003 claimed the record number of total downloads from any Web site (more than 230 million since it went online). Unlike Napster, which provides a central directory of shared files, Kazaa distributes its directories to "supernodes," which are the users' own , Grokster and now-defunct Napster Inc. |
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