MMS Compared to Limewire. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile Face New Copyright Infringement Suit
Some interesting news related to a lawsuit that has all the major US mobile carriers involved including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, & T-Mobile was picked up recently by Techdirt. According to the site, the company Luvdarts claims these providers are no better than file sharing networks that spread illegal content and goes as far as comparing them to Limewire and Gnutella.
Luvdarts LLC, a multimedia messaging (MMS) content creator, is accusing the aforementioned carriers of copyright infringement because their customers have shared MMS content illegally. The company demands that wireless carriers, which fall outside the DMCA safe harbor protections as service providers (not exactly true), pay damage fines for 9,999-100,000 counts of copyright infringement (at $150,000 per infringement). Wow!
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