In MP3tunes copyright case, EMI wants CEO's assets - CNET
Summary
Record label EMI is tightening its grip on the personal assets of Michael Robertson, the longtime tech entrepreneur, maverick, and founder of MP3tunes.com. MP3tunes.com, a pioneering cloud music service, fought a five-year long copyright battle with EMI before going bust last month. Last August, U.S. District Judge William Pauley found MP3tunes and Robertson liable for contributory infringement (for not honoring a request to remove songs from the service that had been identified by EMI as pirated). Mark Gorton, the founder of LimeWire, only paid $105 million in damages and that service distributed a lot more music than MP3tunes.com, which never really found an audience. In 2007, Kazaa, one of the pioneering peer-to-peer services, was forced to write a check for $100 million to settle its copyright dispute with the major labels.