The New York Times article (link here) cites the RIAA claims but also spells out LimeWire's that the association has refused to work with LimeWire to allow sharing of noncopyrighted files and to send users who wanted copyrighted works to legal sites like iTunes. Instead, it wants Limewire and any other file sharers to partner with iMesh, which Limewire suggests, is controlled by the RIAA members. “LimeWire cites the recording industry's relationship with iMesh, a file-sharing service it sued, but which is now essentially working at the industry's behest, operating a fee-based downloading service.”
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Free file sharing service countersues the recording industry
In response to the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuit against it last month, the LimeWire file-sharing company filed a counterclaim this week. It charges association members with "anticompetitive practices, restraint of trade, tortuous interference and other claims (info.riaalawsuits.us)."
[Posted at 09/30/2006 02:15 PM by John Bennett on Against Monopoly 
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You have copied the New York Times' spelling error. "tortuous interference" should read "tortious interference"
[Comment at 10/04/2006 03:38 AM by Clyde Adams III]
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