The recording industry has filed a new copyright infringement suit against the makers of Morpheus, a move that comes only a month after suffering a setback in its legal fight against the file-sharing service.
The new suit involves a Web radio service never launched by Streamcast Networks, the company behind the popular Morpheus software that lets millions of fans share songs for free.
Record labels allege in the suit that in preparing to launch the radio service, Streamcast bought thousands of CDs with thousands of songs and then transferred the music onto a digital database on computer hard drives and other memory devices without the permission of the copyright owners.
Streamcast Chief Executive Officer Michael Weiss called the lawsuit frivolous. “They’re doing everything they can to stop this company and have reverted back to the only tactic they know, which is to spend their opponent into submission.”
Weiss called the recording companies “sore losers” following U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson’s ruling on a separate copyright lawsuit in Los Angeles against Streamcast Networks.
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