The RIAA is back to suing over file sharing:
There's a new public enemy #1 for US record labels when it comes to online piracy: a website called "MP3skull."
The MP3skull site, which was sued for copyright infringement by the major US record labels on Friday, is a no-frills listing of hit songs available for download within a few clicks. The site hosts no content, instead linking to MP3 music files that are available on other sites. For instance, its current top hit, "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa, links to files hosted on sites like mp3light.net, freemp3.se, and trendingmp3.com.
"You can find your favorite songs in our multimillion database of quality mp3 links," the site suggests on its front page. "We provide fast and relevant search... Hope you enjoy staying here!"
The site includes a "copyright" page, which has a series of bizarre disclaimers including one that says "all music on is presented only for fact-finding listening." Another suggests that users must remove songs from their computer after they listen to it.
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The record labels admit they don't know where the site's owners are based. Their investigation points to Russia, but that's far from certain.
Wouldn't it be funny if it were actually an AI harvesting the world's music and making it freely available on demand, retreating from system to system, reproducing itself in as many legal jurisdictions and ways as possible to exhaust the RIAA's lawyers into submission?
