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LimeWire sued by record companies


File-sharing site LimeWire is being sued by a consortium of the world's largest record labels.


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File-sharing site LimeWire is being sued by a consortium of the world's largest record labels.

Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music Group are asking for $150,000 (£79,000) in damages for each song "wilfully infringed" by LimeWire, claiming that the company has profited from unlawful music downloads.

The US-based lawsuit claims that LimeWire's executives "have had a direct financial interest in, and derived substantial benefit from, the infringement of [the labels'] copyrighted sound recordings."

The lawsuit comes a month after peer-to-peer site
Kazaa
settled out of court with record labels, paying them more than $100m.

http://www.limewire.com

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