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To: Das Boot who wrote (6840)	11/16/2000 2:26:04 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 19428

You gotta do some MPPP!: MP3.COM FACES ANOTHER COPYRIGHT SUIT AFTER SETTLING FIVE 11/16/0 14:24 (New York) New York (dpa) - Internet music site MP3.com was hit with another copyright-infringement lawsuit Thursday, two days after it ended a similar one with a major music label. The class-action suit was filed in federal court in Los Angeles by companies that included Unity Entertainment. MP3.com is the U.S. company that developed the MP3 format, which compresses music into computer files, allowing it to be listened to and swapped over the Internet. Thursday's was the latest in copyright-infringement litigation aimed at it from the music industry, which claims the technology allows users to swap music for free and robs the industry of compensation for the use of its intellectual property. MP3.com unsuccessfully tried to thwart further lawsuits with its launch of MyMP3.com, which allows music lovers to listen online to only the music they already own. Unlike other online music services, however, MyMP3.com doesn't force users to copy their own music to an online database before listening to it. Instead, it provides a ready-made database of 80,000 songs. ``On behalf of both consumers and artists, we are disappointed to receive this complaint, particularly in light of the strides we have made in securing licensing agreements from now all five of the major record labels,'' MP3.com Chief Executive Michael Robertson said in a statement. On Tuesday, Robertson's company agreed in court to pay 53.4 million dollars to Seagram Company's Universal Music Group in damages and attorneys' costs and license Universal's songs for use on MyMP3.com. It had previously settled suits out of court with the Sony Music Group, Time Warner's Warner Music Group, EMI Recorded Music and Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment.