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Record companies sue two Minnesota men

29. January 2007, 16:24 Uhradmin

Major record companies sued two Minnesotans on Thursday for alleged copyright infringement, accusing the men of illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet.In its latest attempt to stop the global online theft of music, the Recording Industry of America (RIAA), on behalf of major record companies, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis and Duluth against Jerry Bowman, of Deerwood, and Matt Smith, of Minneapolis.

According to the suits, the men used, without permission, an online media distribution system to download copyrighted recordings and distribute them to others, via unauthorized peer-to-peer services such as LimeWire. Last fall, major record companies sued the operators of the file-sharing service LimeWire for alleged copyright infringement.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.