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Music Should Be Heard But Not Understood

Posted by samzenpus on from the dirty-dean-and-the-dunder-cheese dept.

PaxTech writes "Warner/Chapell music has cease-and-desisted a small freeware developer who wrote a Mac OS X lyrics downoading application. pearLyrics in no way contributed to piracy or copyright infringement, it was merely a tool to search for lyrics on public websites and view or add them to mp3 metadata. This is part of a larger crackdown on websites distributing lyrics. Apparently, the labels would like to force us back to a world where Hendrix kisses guys."

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  1. Re:Do it or not by Pulse_Instance · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I highly doubt the RIAA would go after someone like google just because of the size of the company would mean that they would actually be able to fight back.