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Old 05-04-2011, 07:43 PM  
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CBS Interactive, CNET Sued Over LimeWire Distribution

LOS ANGELES?FilmOn.com founder Alki David really hates CBS. Any doubt of his utter contempt for the company can be quickly dispelled by a visit to the ?cbsyousuck? page on FilmOn.com that explains why ?the duplicity of CBS beggars belief.?

In fact, David hates Viacom/CBS so much that he brought together a group of music artists to sue the company today in Los Angeles. The accusation is that CBS, through its CBS Interactive subsidiaries CNET.com and Download.com, profited from the downloading of huge numbers of copies of LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing software through its sites, ultimately accounting for over 95 percent of all LimeWire downloads. The plaintiffs include Alki as well as a consortium of music artists, among them Detron Bendross of 2 Live Crew, Rome, Diamond Blue of Pretty Ricky, Trisco Smith from Force MDs and Coldhard representing Crucial Conflict.

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http://business.avn.com/articles/leg...on-435083.html
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