The Recording Industry Association of America has sent
cease-and-desist letters to seven P2P companies to stop enabling
and inducing the infringement of its members' music, according to a
report by CNET News.com.
The letters follow a recent Supreme Court win for the music
industry, where Grokster and StreamCast Networks were found liable
for copyright infringements by users of their peer-to-peer
software, because they had intended the software to be used for
that purpose.
The recipients of the seven letters have not been identified by
the RIAA, although The Wall Street Journal reports that BearShare,
WinMX and LimeWire have received letters.
