RIAA Body Count – August 22

Posted in RIAA, IFPI on August 22nd, 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
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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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  1. 1. Alcoholism Said：
    May 2nd, 2007 at 8:10 am

    In the past 6 months, the war against P2P has reached a critical stage. Courts from around the world (including the United States, Spain, Taiwan and Australia) have united in their decisions against P2P operators and ordered some of the most popular to shut down their operations. It appears that as quickly as P2P has spread since Napster , the closing down of operators is now happening just as fast.

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