Music industry serves up lyrical piracy lawsuits

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sat, 08/29/2009 - 09:00

Continuing on its charm offensive, the music industry is apparently not satisfied with the $675,000 fine for sharing 30 songs imposed on Joel Tenenbaum or the $1.92 million Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with for illegally downloading 24 tunes.

Now it is going after the lyrics pirates. The what? Well, exactly. But apparently three music publishers have filed copyright infringement suites against a couple of sites which display song lyrics so you can sing along while the music plays.

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