More litigation against social networking sites whose members primarily socially network by illegally sharing copyright content. This time it's Warner Music suing Imeem, which is a bit of a cross between MySpace and YouTube. The lawsuit claims Imeem have completely failed to introduce any filtering technology that controls, at least a little, the distribution of unauthorised content via their online platform, as well as making accusations that the social networking company "actively facilitates copyright infringement".
However, the new lawsuit comes just a few weeks after Imeem announced it had done a deal with SnoCap which will seemingly see the social network platform use their song tracking technology which, in theory at least, allows record companies to either block their content or receive a share of any ad revenue it helps generate. It's not clear how Warner's lawsuit squares with that commitment.
Similar lawsuits against similar content sharing networks are, of course, also ongoing, including Universal Music's suit against MySpace and Viacom's high profile litigation against YouTube.