CNET is reporting this weekend that they have uncovered documents revealing that the music trade group RIAA wants LimeWire shut down for good.
The RIAA has requested that a Manhattan District Court give them a permanent injunction against the P2P client, effectively shutting it down in the United States.
Write the RIAA lawyers: “Every day that Lime Wire’s conduct continues unabated guarantees harm to plaintiffs that money damages cannot and will not compensate. The scope of the infringements that Lime Wire induced…boggles the mind.”
Last month, Judge Kimba Wood found the once-extremely popular file sharing service liable of copyright infringement in a 4-year-old lawsuit brought against them by the RIAA. The decision was seen as the final nail in the company’s coffin.
Kimba will now meet with LimeWire and the RIAA’s representatives, where the judge can grant the injunction and seal the service’s fate.
Responded LimeWire: “We are looking forward to an opportunity to address the Court for the first time in two years and show that as a matter of fact and law there is no support for this motion.”
Result for: matter of fact
Nokia Vietnam is being sued by that country’s equivalent of the RIAA, the Recording Industry Assotiation of Vietnam (RIAV) over downloads they’re offering to mobile phone owners as part of a promotion.
The case is somewhat strange since the songs in question are being provided to Nokia by another company, FPT Telecom. What makes it odd is that the RIAV doesn’t seem to be going after FPT Telecom for selling the music to Nokia.
“We want to directly solve the case with Nokia. As a matter of fact, we will independently work with FPT Online about another matter,” said RIAV’s Vice Chairwoman, Truong Thi Thu Dung.
Perhaps it’s simply a question of going after the company with the deepest pockets. Or maybe it’s because they’re already suing FPT Telecom over content on their IPTV service and want to maximize the damages for each.
And maybe they just don’t expect to get their money from FPT, who Dung has described as “uncooperative.”
