The Recording Industry Association of America has dropped the copyright-infringement lawsuit against four internet service providers that we reported on earlier this week because the music site they had issues with - Listen4ever.com – has gone off line. The site, which held thousands of tracks for downloading, was hosted in China making it hard to attack through the US counts. So the record labels targeted the ISPs that gave American websurfers access to the website. Although this particular action has been dropped RIAA officials have not ruled out future suits against ISPs saying the pull back "does not preclude further litigation if www.listen4ever.com should reconstitute itself under some new name or move to another server."
Aug 23, 2002
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RIAA drop action against ISPs
The RIAA has dropped its lawsuit against four ISPs after the listen4ever.com site went offline, though it has not ruled out future action.