Gracenote Sues Roxio Over Switch to Free Song Database

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Gracenote Sues Roxio Over Switch to Free Song Database 356

Posted by michael on Friday May 11, 2001 @09:18AM from the if-you-can't-beat-em,-sue-em dept.

macsforever2001 writes: "Those l00z3rs at Gracenote are suing Roxio because they switched to freedb from CDDB. I think I will buy Toast 5 just to support them." Gracenote's press release is informative. Apparently their claims include one that switching to freedb is "violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by offering products that circumvent Gracenote's technological measures to obtain access to an unauthorized derivative of the CDDB copyrighted database."

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