The copyright administration company MCS Music America has filed suit against Real Networks, Yahoo and Microsoft this week, alleging that the groups engaged in copyright infringement on some of the company's music.
The case is based on the streaming technology used by yahoomusic.com, rhapsody.com and zune.com which allows customers to listen to full music streams "on demand," or to download ... [ read the full article ]
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Surprised that Napster is not on this list, as the Napster to Go subscription service is basically the same thing as listed in this suit.
Let's see if I got this straight. You pay Zune for Zune Pass. You download the music to your PC/Device. Said downloads are DRM encrypted, and only work as long as you pay your monthly fee...
So MCS is basically stating that there is no difference the DRM license and the copyright license, and think they hold the rights to BOTH??? WOW!
ALIS123, they would sue you if they thought you had any money.
They will never get a dime from Jamie Thomas. They do not expect to. They will have to right off the legal expensis. I guess they figured the publisity is worth it.
But then they are total morons that have way too much evil in their soles to think right.
To the best of my understanding here, they do not like the idea of consumers getting the FULL song before they pay anything. So I guess soon our mp3 download service trials will be half songs? PATHETIC
Yer i'm going with grkblood. It's companys like MCS music that need a put hole put in their face and their yap holes ironed together. There only doing it because there looking to upgrade there mansions.
