Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Canadian record label taking on the RIAA over lawsuits

Canada’s largest privately owned record label, which represents such homegrown successes as Avril Lavigne, the Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan, has joined one Texas family’s fight against the Recording Industry Association of America. Vancouver-based Nettwerk Music Group has taken up the cause of David Greubel and his family, who are being sued by the RIAA for songs they had indirectly offered through a peer-to-peer file-sharing program installed on their computer