[FYI] (Fwd) [GILC-plan] Music companies sue Net providers to block Chinese site

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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From:           	Chris Chiu <CCHIU@aclu.org>
To:             	gilc-plan@gilc.org
Date sent:      	Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:17:46 -0400
Subject:        	[GILC-plan] Music companies sue Net providers to block Chinese site

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2201686.stm

A group of major record labels have sued internet service providers to
block access to a website they claim allows people to copy music.

The copyright infringement suit was filed in Manhattan federal court
by companies including Universal, BMG, Sony and Warner Brothers.

It demanded that internet providers including AT&T, Cable & Wireless,
Sprint and WorldCom block access to Listen4ever.com. 

The record companies claim Listen4ever.com allows users to download
music from a central location containing thousands of files, enabling
them to make illegal copies. ...

The site's domain name was registered in January 2002 by an individual
in Tianjin, east of the Chinese capital, Beijing.

But the record companies say any information on who runs the site is
"strikingly absent" from it.  ...

An AT&T spokeswoman told the New York Times the company had never
before been asked to block access to a foreign site. Access to the
site had been blocked by Saturday night. 

Sincerely,
Christopher Chiu
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Organizer
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York NY 10004
USA
Phone: (212) 549-2535
Email: cchiu@aclu.org 

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