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Playlist.com - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Project Playlist is a particularly high quality site with profile pages, networks of friends and the ability to share playlists via widgets posted to MySpace, hi5, Piczo and blogs. The service basically allows you to search the web for MP3s and then package them up in a widget to post elsewhere.
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"In short (Project Playlist's) entire business amounts to nothing more than a massive infringement," the labels' court filing claims. Should they win, the labels are seeking to have the site's illegal music streaming halted, and unspecified damages paid in compensation.
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The RIAA has filed a federal complaint against the music search engine Project Playlist, arguing that most of the material it turns up is infringing and that the site operators know it. The "we just link to the music" defense may not fly in this case. ... Project Playlist, based in California, makes the same claim,
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Those major music companies are likely Warner Music, Universal Music Group and EMI, which have been in litigation with Project Playlist since April 2008. This is both a ban and a scrub, meaning users can’t add new widgets and all old widgets are being removed from the site.
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Music search and streaming service Project Playlist may finally be turning the tide in its ongoing battle with the music industry. EMI Music, ... ... Warner and Universal don’t seem to be in any rush to settle, however. And Project Playlist doesn’t have much time. The number of U.S. unique visitors going to its site...
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