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RIAA Wins Copyright Judgment Against Usenet.com

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 6:00am.
Los Angeles - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on Wednesday that a federal court has ruled in its favor in a copyright infringement lawsuit it filed against Usenet.com. According to CNET's coverage, U.S. District Judge Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York found Usenet.com -- which offers access to the twenty-year-old Usenet network -- guilty of direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement.
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