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RIAA Body Count - August 22

Filed in archive RIAA, IFPI on August 22, 2006

A current list of casualties and friendlies in the RIAA war against P2P developers follows.





RIAA Body Count
In active litigation
pic Limewire 8-06 Gnutella P2P network
pic Morpheus 10-01, latest Gnutella P2P network Neo P2P network Bit Torrent P2P Network
Received cease & desist letter
pic eDonkey 9-05 eDonkey P2P network
Agreed to transition to authorized business
pic Kazaa 7-06 Fast Track P2P network
Converted to authorized business
BearShare 8-06 Gnutella P2P network
iMesh 10-05 Gnutella P2P network
Ceased operations
Grokster 11-05 Fast Track P2P network
pic WinMX 9-05
Authorized businesses with major label content
MyPeer announced Bit Torrent P2P Network
Qtrax announced
BitTorrent announced Bit Torrent P2P Network
iMesh 10-05 Gnutella P2P network
Maxhboxx announced
pic pic




This list includes only parties that publicly develop decentralized P2P software for major networks. It does not include freeware/open source resuscitations or distributions, web sites, servers, international software or services, or older software (Napster 1.0, Scour, Aimster, Audiogalaxy, etc.).


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