The recording industry’s nightmare: A government-backed torrent site

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http://bgr.com/2013/12/20/torrent-fm-torrent-site/" class="bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class">a0a7e7c3769c53997c52b52a13862f7a.jpgA new torrent-indexing site comes from Spain using search technology financed by the government and developed by a P2P veteran who managed to defeat big music labels in court. Pablo Soto was cleared by a court in 2011 in a case pursued by big labels including Universal, Sony, EMI, Warner and the “Spanish RIAA” Promusicae which were seeking €13 million in damages from Soto’s company that created various file-sharing services. The court found Soto’s software to be “totally neutral,” TorrentFreak reports, while the labels argued it was designed to infringe on their copyrights and profit from them.Continue reading...38ac0263e787053628c8ae66f2901d12._.gif

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