Some time ago we reported on the Australian company
ComCen being sued by the music industry for hosting an MP3 site. ComCen was
sued because its logo was displayed on mp3s4free.net but they denied
hosting any copyright-infringing files on its servers. Now, thanks
to GristyMcFisty, we can read a
follow-up story on this over at ZDNet. According to the article
ComCen has decided not to repost
the MP3 site:
 Record company and ComCen lawyers met before Judge Brian
Tamberlin at the Federal Court in Sydney at 9.30am, in which ComCen agreed
not to repost the site under question or to allow any other Web site to be
put up under the URL www.mp3s4free.net.
This was the most probable outcome after
Stephen Cooper, the owner of the site www.mp3s4free.net, removed the site yesterday after indicating he didn't have
the financial resources for an extended legal battle. ComCen had
previously refused to remove the site, but director Liam Bal told ZDNet
Australia that since the site was no longer operational they
were conserving energy for the main battle over whether any infringements
occurred and if so, whether the Internet provider was liable.
Last week Universal Music Australia, EMI
Music Australia, Sony Music Entertainment (Australia), Warner Music
Australia, BMG Australia and Festival Records took both Cooper and ComCen
to court alleging copyright infringement over the Web site www.mp3s4free.net. ComCen and Cooper claim that the Web site only offered links
to MP3 files, and was therefore analogous to a directory service such as
Yahoo. Bal said ComCen would fight the case
strongly. |
Source: ZDNet
