![]() ![]() When one party doesn’t show up to court and the other wins by default, judges often grant the winning party everything they ask for. court to defend themselves-and the labels know this. These sites, run from outside the U.S., don’t bother appearing in U.S. Record labels have been filing many lawsuits against websites that they deem to be connected to copyright infringement. ![]() The labels are seeking a court order that would bind all of these companies to assist the labels in making Youtube-MP3 disappear from the Internet.Įven if that website is found to be liable for copyright infringement, the law doesn’t give copyright or trademark holders such sweeping power to edit the Internet. ![]() But as in other recent lawsuits, the labels’ real target appears to be nearly every company that operates or supports the operation of the Internet. This time, their alleged target is the website, a site that extracts the audio tracks from YouTube videos and allows users to download them. This is the very power that Congress has refused to give them, and the very power they have proven unable and unwilling to use responsibly. Once again, major record labels are asking a court to give them power over the Internet’s basic infrastructure. ![]()
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