Record companies sue Project Playlist
30 Apr 2008 | 08:16 BST
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PROJECT PLAYLIST, an outfit which enables users to easily search, play and share music with others for free, has been sued by nine major record labels for "massive infringement" of copyright.
The site, which can be found here, compiles an index of songs on the World Wide Wibble and allows users to " quickly and easily search the index for recordings by favourite artists".
When the user finds something he likes, Project Playlist will download the torrent and stream it to the user who can listen to it on his or her computer or mobile device.
What seems to have put the willies up the music industry is that Project Playlist has been optimising its site for use on Iphones and Ipods and providing technology to embed personalised playlists on social notworking sites.
According to the paperwork submitted to the court, projectplaylist.com gets more than 600,000 daily users and that means a 'massive infringement' of the record companies' property.
Included in the action are Atlantic, Elektra, Warner, Capitol, Priority, Virgin America, Interscope, Motown, UMG and Vivendi. µ
L'Inq
Reuters
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