RIAA claims Box.Net for pirated content distributed by users

Having received $ 105 million from LimeWire, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) drew attention to the Box.net cloud service, which provides users with the ability to store any files on their servers, opening up access to their files to everyone who wishes. Representatives of Box.net so far claim that the complaint filed by the RIAA is a standard complaint against users distributing illegal content. However, there is evidence that the RIAA filed a lawsuit, and not a simple complaint.

It may well be that the RIAA will begin an official investigation, in order to clarify the circumstances of the distribution of files with illegal music files by users of the Box.net service. In general, there is nothing surprising in the fact that out of thousands of users of this resource, someone saved some music and opened access to it.

Generally speaking, Box.net’s main idea is to provide corporate users with a reliable tool for hosting and transferring any files. From the very beginning, the creators of the service positioned it as a completely legal service that will make life easier for all those who deal with a lot of data that need to be constantly exchanged. The idea has taken root, and now Box.net is used in more than 10 thousand companies.

Naturally, someone could preserve music, without a second thought about violating someone’s rights there. Nevertheless, the RIAA sees a very serious misconduct in such user actions and is going to earn some more money and is going to strictly follow the letter of the copyright law. It is not yet clear how this unpleasant story for Box.net can end, but the RIAA just does not give up such a case, that's for sure.

Via Mashable